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How to Install and Use the Linux Tree Command?

A Step-by-Step Guide to Installing and Using the Linux Tree Command

Rajdeep Singh
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19 min readDec 31, 2024

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Linux tree command not used in daily based commands. It is a convenient command to show a folder or directory content in contents in a tree-like format.

The tree command provides an in-depth tree diagram listing recursive files in your terminal. The tree is commonly used to understand project structure.

The most common use cases for tree commands, for example, every app or project, are very big. Because of the many files, folders, or directories in the app, you do not observe and understand what happens and which folders and files are located.

The second common example is using the tree command to describe project structure in documentation, which I mostly use.

The second example is using the tree command to describe project structure in documentation, which I mostly use.

The tree doesn't provide search functionality.

In this tutorial, you understand the tree command working and installing process by example.

How to install the tree command?

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Rajdeep Singh
Rajdeep Singh

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