[ale] Help with data recovery

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:32:46 -0400
DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

 
> Use the 'tree -d' command to see all the directories below your
> $HOME.  There are probably hundreds. There is a pretty clear layout
> that your brain will quickly understand, but you have to look.  GUIs
> are fine for moving around, but they don't give the overview that
> 'tree -d' does.

And don't forget you can use the --charset ascii option to change all
the connection lines to ascii characters |, - and `. Really handy if
you want to apply further processing to the indented list. You can also
have it output json, or xml for further processing, or HTML for
distribution.

SteveT

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