Command-line tool

tre

brew/tre

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Lightweight, POSIX-compliant regular expression (regex) library cli, filesystem, tree

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id polygonstew.read.tre -e

macOS

brew install tre

Linux

brew install tre

Print directories only

tre -d

Print JSON containing files in the tree hierarchy instead of the normal tree diagram

tre -j

Print files and directories up to the specified depth limit (where 1 means the current directory)

tre -l depth

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