tree command in eshell on Windows

Question

The unix tree command gives a very good overview of the project/dir structure. Even Windows has its own version of tree.

When I run tree command in eshll on Windows, I got this error:

$ tree
Spawning child process: exec format error

It seems that eshell doesn't support the system (Windows) command. What should I do? Or is there any implementations for eshell?

Answer 1

tree is not a command built into eshell. If you run the command which tree you'll find that it's running the Windows version of tree, which it seems gives eshell some problems in its output format. Try downloading GNU tree for Windows from the project GnuWin32 here.