tree++: A Much Better Windows tree Command

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The Windows tree command has barely changed since it was released nearly 40 years ago. In the LLM era, it is a very commonly used tool for describing project structures, but with only /f and /a, its capabilities are clearly insufficient. It is also slow.

tree++ is a comprehensive upgrade to tree, bringing the following to the Windows tree command:

• An extended option set, covering commonly used features such as showing file sizes, limiting recursion depth, changing output styles, exporting results to a file, and excluding specific directories (including honoring .gitignore).
• Multi-threading support, delivering significant performance improvements on large and complex directories.
• Fully compatible with the original Windows tree command’s options and output, and also compatible with Unix-style options (such as -f and --files).

tree++ is implemented in Rust, and is open-sourced on GitHub.

Performance comparison (using C:\Windows as an example):

Type	Time (ms)	Multiplier
Native tree	34055.50	1.0x
treepp (default, 8 threads)	3480.12	9.79x
treepp (1 thread)	6687.58	5.09x

Installation

Download tree++.zip from Release, extract it to a suitable directory, and add that directory to your environment variables.

Open Windows Terminal and run:

treepp /v

You should see output like:

tree++ version 0.1.0

A Better tree command for Windows.

author: WaterRun
link: https://github.com/Water-Run/treepp

Installation is now complete.

After that, you can use it the same way as the normal Windows tree command:

treepp /f

Quick Reference

Option Set (Equivalent Forms)	Description
--help -h /?	Show help information
--version -v /V	Show version information
--ascii -a /A	Draw the tree using ASCII characters
--files -f /F	Show files
--full-path -p /FP	Show full paths
--human-readable -H /HR	Show file sizes in human-readable form
--no-indent -i /NI	Do not show tree connector lines
--reverse -r /R	Sort in reverse order
--size -s /S	Show file size (bytes)
--date -d /DT	Show last modified date
--exclude -I /X	Exclude matching files
--level -L /L	Limit recursion depth
--include -m /M	Show only matching files
--quote -q /Q	Wrap file names in double quotes
--dirs-first -D /DF	Show directories first
--disk-usage -u /DU	Show cumulative directory size
--ignore-case -c /IC	Ignore case when matching
--no-report -n /NR	Do not show trailing summary statistics
--prune -P /P	Prune empty directories
--sort -S /SO	Specify sort method (name, size, mtime, etc.)
--no-header -N /NH	Do not show volume info and header report
--silent -l /SI	Silent terminal output (use with output)
--output -o /O	Output results to a file (.txt, .json, .yml, .toml)
--thread -t /T	Number of scan threads (default is 8)
--gitignore -g /G	Honor .gitignore

For the full option set, see: tree++ Options Documentation