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HI all,

Is there a linux command which will output the structure of a given directory as XML? if there is, that would be awesome.

Thanks very much

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That sounds like it wouldnt be too tough to implement upstream, you should consider adding an extension to the tree command or ask the maintainer to do it for you: mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree might not be a solution for right now but it may help someone else down the line. If you don't write it I will, cus its a good idea! – Andrew Bolster May 12 '10 at 11:33
Hi Andrew, Yes, this exactly what i've been thinking. I looked at the 'tree' command before I posted the question. I was surprised there was not an option on the command like tree /tmp --xml or something similar. Alas, i'm not too familiar with C (i presume it's written in that) so I would struggle to write it but by all means if you can (and of course if you have the time to do so) then that would be AWESOME. Thanks. – Jamie May 12 '10 at 16:07

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XMLStarlet will do this.

xml ls

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As far as I know there is no standard linux command to do the job, but google-ing I found that there is a free multi platform: xml-directory-listing

Unfortunately it is written in Java.

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Hi Albert, Thanks. I will give it a go and report my findings :-) – Jamie May 12 '10 at 7:54
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You could easily write a script for that, using languages such as Perl, Python or Ruby should do well.

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