tree-for-windows

📁 .
├── 📁 src
│ └── 📄 main.cpp
├── 📄 Makefile
├── 📄 cc.py
└── 📄 compile_commands.json

What is this?

A fast, colorful, advanced Windows command-line tree utility written in C++20 using std::filesystem.
Features:

• Unicode icons (📁📄🔗) for directories, files, symlinks
• Color output using native Windows console API
• Command line options with --max-deep-recursive=N to limit recursion depth
• Handles access permission errors gracefully
• Uses clang++ and optimized Makefile for small builds

Usage

tree [path] [--max-deep-recursive=N]

• path - Root directory to list (defaults to current directory)
• --max-deep-recursive=N - Limit directory recursion depth (default: unlimited)
• -h, --help - Show this help message

Example:

tree C:\Users --max-deep-recursive=3

Building

Make sure you have clang++ installed on Windows (via LLVM installer or WSL). Run:

make

This compiles src/main.cpp into build/tree.exe with C++20 and optimizations.

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License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details.