Question

I’m working with a linux machine that I’m not familiar with, so I’d like to get a txt print out of its folder structure. I remember having written a script that does something similar in php, but can’t find it. I’m looking for any of the following that might help me with this task:

• a bash script
• an existing linux command line
• a php script

Answer 1

 find . -type d > dirstructure.txt

However, on a typcial linux box, I’d rather not run this from the directory root. If you do and get a couple of permission errors, you could send the errors to /dev/null

 find . -type d > dirstructure.txt 2> /dev/null