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How to: Print your Directory Structure
By TheEmperor | August 19, 2008
Occasionally as a consultant you will run across people who still live in an age of “Paper” and “Documents” and want you to deliver to them a printed copy of something inane. One of the requests I’ve run across is a desire for a printout of the Directory Structure of a networked storage device.
If you are “Old Skool” you will immediately think, “I can just pipe the output of Tree to a text file and print that, problem solved!” And you would be correct. But you would also end up with an ugly, difficult to decipher mismash of lines and words that don’t many any sense unless you already know what you are looking at. Enter YourDir. A freeware utility from Prime Option that displays a tasty looking directory structure with nested folders and files. YourDir is also customizable as to the depth that you can display and the number of files/folders, as well as the option to even display files in the first place.
I mean really, would you rather see this:
Or This:
You also have the option to save the structure as an image, or a CSV file. Definitely a handy little widget to have around.
Topics: directory tree, how to, print directory, print file structure, print tree |
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