The tree command can make it very simple for you to trace files and folders using the command line. You can view how a directory on your system is structured and where every file is located.

Use Terminal to see an indented tree-like view of a given folder’s structure.

Before I dig into this, I thought I'd ask here if anyone has cooked up a script that will collapse a directory of files in many folders into one folder; i.e. a directory tree into just one flat ...

So where does that leave us poor souls who simply want to see all our files and folders in the same view--details, lists, thumbnails, or icons--in every Explorer folder?

But there’s an easy way to view the sizes of Folders directly within the Finder; watch our video tutorial to see how.