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Oct 12, 2026, 6:04 AMtoday i learned the 'tree' command line tool has HTML output https://approximate.life/tmp/
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MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:15 AM@scanlime wait. I'm high and in bed and the man pages feel very far away. There's an option for this? What's the option? This is insane
Oct 12, 2026, 6:29 AM- Oct 12, 2026, 6:36 AM
![XML/JSON/HTML/HYPERLINKS OPTIONS
-X Turn on XML output. Outputs the directory tree as an XML formatted
file.
-J Turn on JSON output. Outputs the directory tree as a JSON
formatted array.
-H [-]baseHREF
Turn on HTML output, including HTTP references. Useful for ftp
sites. baseHREF gives the base ftp location when using HTML
output. That is, the local directory may be `/local/ftp/pub', but
it must be referenced as `ftp://hostname.organization.domain/pub'
(baseHREF should be `ftp://hostname.organization.domain'). If
baseHREF begins with a dash (-), then the dash is removed and
indicates that tree should remove the first directory name from
the href URL. Hint: don't use ANSI lines with this option, and
don't give more than one directory in the directory list. If you
wish to use colors via CSS style-sheet, use the -C option in
addition to this option to force color output.
--hintro[=]file
Use file as the HTML intro in place of the default one. Use an
empty file or /dev/null to eliminate the intro altogether.
--houtro[=]file
Use file as the HTML outro in place of the default one. Use an
empty file or /dev/null to eliminate the outro altogether.
-T title
Sets the title and H1 header string in HTML output mode.
--nolinks
Turns off hyperlinks in HTML output.
--hyperlink
Enable OSC 8 terminal hyperlinks for terminals that support them.
See BUGS AND NOTES below.
--scheme[=]schema
Sets the schema used in the OSC 8 hyperlinks. The default schema
is 'file://'. If the schema omits the colon (:), then :// will be
appended to the schema.
--authority[=]hostname|authority
Sets the authority (hostname) to use for the OSC 8 hyperlinks. By
default the local hostname of the machine as returned by
gethostname() is used as the authority. A dot (.) or a set of
""'s, sans '=', (i.e. the empty string) can be used to indicate a
null authority.](https://cdn.masto.host/lingolol/media_attachments/files/117/426/549/727/555/489/original/aa0c5de0d389a50a.png)