nerdscanner

Inspired in the traditional tree command for linux. Show a recursive folder tree with the nerdfonts icons, icons for folders, icons, and use colors for the output.

Requirements

The requirements list are:

• A very pretty linux distribution
• A nerd font used in your terminal
• A very good and pretty configured terminal
• Python
• Git
• Bash

Install

To install use the following commands:

mkdir ~/repo
cd ~/repo
git clone https://github.com/AlphaTechnolog/nerdscanner.git
cd nerdscanner
./install.sh # Please write your password to create folders in /opt and files in /usr/bin

Uninstall

To uninstall use the uninstall.sh script:

cd $NERDSCANNERPATH
./uninstall.sh

Getting started

First create a testdir

cd $HOME
mkdir -p testdir/dir1 testdir/dir2 testdir/dir3
touch testdir/hello1 testdir/hello2
ln -s $HOME/testdir/dir2 testdir/dir1/dir2
ln -s $HOME/testdir/hello1 testdir/dir2

The output with tree is:

/home/gabriel/testdir
├── dir1
│   └── dir2 -> /home/gabriel/testdir/dir2
├── dir2
│   └── hello1 -> /home/gabriel/testdir/hello1
├── dir3
├── hello1
└── hello2

The output with nerdscanner:

nerdscanner $HOME/testdir

 dir1
   dir2
     hello1
 hello2
 hello1
 dir3
 dir2
   hello1

the folder color is blue and the file color is green.

Options

To custom the output pass the next options:

• -i/--indent-size: The indent size
• -I/--ignore: Ignore a dirname of filename
• -nr/--no-recursive: Show’s a list of dir content with no recursive method (like ls)
• -H/--hidden: Show the hidden files of dir content
• -NRD/--no-recursive-dir-icon: The no recursive tree, directory icon
• -p/--path: No show the name of dirent, show the path of the dirent.
• -h/--help: Show an automatic help log.
• -F/--file-icon: The file icon or prefix
• -D/--dir-icon: The directory icon or prefix
• -dc/--dir-color: The directory icon color
• -fc/--file-color: The file icon color

For more information use: nerdscanner --help

Examples

nerdscanner $HOME/testdir -i 4 -D "DIR" -F "FILE"

DIR dir1
    DIR dir2
        FILE hello1
FILE hello2
FILE hello1
DIR dir3
DIR dir2
    FILE hello1

nerdscanner $HOME/testdir -i 2 -dc magenta -fc red

 dir1
   dir2
     hello1
 hello2
 hello1
 dir3
 dir2
   hello1

With the colors changed

nerdscanner $HOME/testdir -nr

 dir1
 hello2
 hello1
 dir3
 dir2

mkdir $HOME/other
cd $HOME/other
git init # this create a folder named .git
npm init -y
npm install express morgan body-parser # this create a node_modules folder (like to ignore)
touch .env
echo 'node_modules' >> .env
echo '.env' >> .env
mkdir src
echo 'const express = require("express"); const app = express(); app.listen(8000, () => console.log("Listening on port 8000..."))' >> src/index.js
cd
nerdscanner other -HI node_modules .git

 .env
 package.json
  src
   index.js

nerdscanner other -HI node_modules .git -nr -NRD "FOLDER (no open)" -F "FILE" -i 4 -dc red -fc blue -p

FILE other/.env
FILE other/package.json
FOLDER (no open) other/src

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