marcelarie / tree-rs

`tree` in rust

tree-rs

Description

Rewrite tree in rust.

Framing

Limit the implementation to how tree works when no options are passed. Maybe just -a for hidden files.

Output example:

foo@bar:~$  tree-rs
.
├── Cargo.toml
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── src
    └── main.rs

1 directory, 4 files

When this is ready, a --raw parameter could be implemented, that returns the tree structure data for another application to consume. A faster alternative to json could be nice for bigger directory structures.

json example:

foo@bar:~$ tree-rs --raw
[
  {"type":"directory","name":".","contents":[
    {"type":"file","name":"Cargo.toml"},
    {"type":"file","name":"LICENSE"},
    {"type":"file","name":"README.md"},
    {"type":"directory","name":"src","contents":[
      {"type":"file","name":"main.rs"}
    ]},
  ]},
  {"type":"report","directories":1,"files":4}
]