flpa / cl-tree

Common Lisp toy implementation of Unix 'tree'

cl-tree

cl-tree is a Common Lisp toy re-implementation of the tree command commonly found on Unix-likes. Its main purpose right is to serve as a playground for experimenting with ‘system programming’ topics in Common Lisp:

• filesystem access
• reading commandline arguments
• creating executables

Example output

.
├── aha
├── b
│   └── more
├── .blerg
│   └── deep-hidden
├── .hidden
├── hjk
└── sphorner_pubkey.asc

3 directories, 5 files

Should I use cl-tree?

No, you better not. As soon as basic functionality is working there might be install instructions for the brave.

License

cl-tree is licensed under GPLv3.

Glossary

Abbreviations

Abbreviations commonly found in source files.

Term	Meaning
dir	directory
ext	extension (file extension)