Win Tree

A program to get the tree structure information of given directory in a recursive manner. This is same as Windows tree command hence the name win_tree except that this supports json formating, depth control and filtering of files based on pattern matching on names.

Usecase

This command is useful for scenarios where making a complete backup of complete data is too expensive hence a snapshot of the file structure tree can be taken and backed up so that atleast the names of the files is available and those files can be fetched again oif needed. (I am using this to create snapshot on a daily basis of my external 8 TB drive that holds all my media.)

Arguments

• [Mandatory] Path - Must always be the first argument.
• [Optional] Depth - [-d ] Controls how deep to go to generate the tree. Note that if there are children of a directory which are not included in the tree due to depth control then size_in_bytes for those directories and cascadingly for all their parent directories would be null as reporting them without evaluating children would be incorrect.
• [Optional] Exclude - [-e <regex_pattern>] Controls which paths to exclude from snapshot.

How to use

# [Install cargo](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html)
- `cargo install win_tree`
- `win_tree <path> -d <depth> -e "<pattern>" > snapshot.json`