MS DOS Command: TREE.COM

Reference from Microsoft MS-DOS cmd help

Description

Graphically displays the structure of a directory.

Syntax

TREE [drive:][path] [/F] [/A]

Parameters

drive:	Specifies the drive that contains the disk for which you want to display the directory structure.
path	Specifies the directory for which you want to display the directory structure.

Switches

/F	Displays the names of the files in each directory.
/A	Specifies that TREE is to use text characters instead of graphic characters to show the lines linking subdirectories. Use this switch with code pages that do not support graphic characters and to send output to printers that don't properly interpret the graphic characters.

Related Command

For information about displaying the contents of a directory, see the DIR command.

Remarks

The structure that TREE displays depends upon the parameters you specify on the command line. If you do not specify a drive or path, TREE displays the tree structure beginning with the current directory of the current drive.

Examples

To display the names of all the subdirectories on the disk in your current drive, type the following command:

tree \

To display, one screen at a time, the files in all the directories on drive C, type the following command:

tree c:\ /f | more

To print the same list that the previous example displayed, type the following command:

tree c:\ /f > prn