XDTREE

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-a

Include files in the listing (excluding entries beginning with '.').

-c linelength

Make linelength the length of each column of the printout. By default, this is 14. Any entries longer than the column length are truncated accordingly, and the last character that fits into the column is replaced by an asterisk. This option only has an effect if the -v option is specified.

-l level

Search only up to the specified level. (Maximum is 10).

-D

List directories first. For each directory, its subdirectories will be listed first, and then all of its other entries.

-f

List files first. The reverse of -D.

-S

Long listing. Display useful information to the right of each entry: the name of the file's owner, its size in blocks, and its mode.

-g

Same as the -S option, except that the group name is used instead of the owner name. If both the -S and -g options are used, both the owner and group will be displayed.

-H

Display a header at the top of the printout that gives the time and date that the printout was made and a summary of the type of information contained in the tree.

-N

No sort. Entries are listed in the order they are read from the directories.

-p

Include entries beginning with '.' (except '.' and '..').

-s

Simplify the long listing: display the user id, size in blocks, and octal mode of the file. This option implies the -S option unless the -g option is specified.

-v

Do not let column lengths vary; use the same width for each column of output. The width defaults to 14 but can be set with the -c option.

-x

Do not cross file systems. xdtree will not cross over to a subdirectory if it is on a different file system.

-h

Will print a list of the options.

-t

Terminal mode. In default mode xdtree will display the directory tree structure in an X11 window. The -t option allows the tree to be printed on the terminal stdout.

Under the X11 window mode, a button click on a tree node, makes it the "active" node. The name of the "active" node always appears at the top of the window, under the "quit" button. Below the area where the name of the "active" node is shown, a table displays the mode of the node, the group and user IDs, and its size. Next to this menu are the file, directory, and Print-Tree option buttons. There are four file options: view, topview, edit and print. There are three directory options: show subtree, list files, and list '../'. Thus, the -c, -S, -g, -s, and -v options are meaningful only when the -t option is used. However, the -S, -g, and -H options are accessible from the toggle buttons in the Print-Tree options menu.

view

Display the whole file on a scrolled window. Since the program reads a file all at once, the wait may be significant for a very large file. However, the option

topview

shows only the top of the file (2000 bytes).

edit

Edit the file. xdtree first checks and executes the command specified by the xdtree*editor: resource in .Xdefaults. If that command is NULL, xdtree forks an hpterm window using the editor command specified in the EDITOR environmental variable. If that variable is not specified, it uses vi.

print

Print the file. It prints the file on the printer destination specified by the xdtree*lpdest: resource in .Xdefaults. If that variable is not specified it uses the default lp destination. The same variable is also being used when the Print-Tree button is selected.

show subtree

Show the directory subtree starting from the selected "active" directory node.

list files

List all files and directories for the "active" directory node. This is equivalent to an "ls" command on that directory.

list ../

List the directories in the parent (top) directory. Allows the user to traverse upwards the directory tree.

Print-Tree

Print the tree. This is equivalent to using the xdtree command with the -t option and piping the output to your printer.

Except for the view and topview options, in all other cases a click on the "quit" button of the "parent" will cause the "parent" xdtree window to freeze until the selected command has been executed or the "child" window has been killed. Then the "parent" window will automatically die. Thus it is recommended to kill "children" applications before you try to kill the "parent".

On a color terminal, one can choose different colors to distinguish between directories, files, and symbolic links. To set up a simple color scheme for xdtree, put the following entries in your ~/.Xdefaults file:

xdtree*geometry: 500x500
xdtree*quit.background: DarkSlateBlue
xdtree*dir.background: Red
xdtree*sym_link.background: Brown
xdtree*options.background: Red               

A set of simple resources is also specified in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XDtree

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