> However, if the directory has many files or sub-directories, tree becomes much less helpful: you only see the last screen full of information as files scroll past you.

  tree | less

Thanks for reading the article. broot does more than just piping tree to less, it gives you a TUI version of tree that you can navigate along around it. The fuzzy finder in it works like FZF but it keeps everything in a nice compact tree view. It might be overkill but I like it.

hnlmorg

There'll always be multiple ways to skin the proverbial cat.

Shameless plug but I'd written my own $SHELL callewd `murex` as I kept running into pain points with Bash as a DevOps engineer. The shell doesn't have `tree` inbuilt but it does have FZF-like navigation built in.

https://github.com/lmorg/murex

I've been using it as my primary shell for a few years now and I'm not going to pretend that it isn't BETA it does work. However it's not POSIX and some of the design decisions might rub people the wrong way (given how opinionated peoples work-flows are). But if you're curious then check it out.