lstr

A fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust.

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A fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust.

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dboreham·Jun 18, 2025

No async which is nice. TIL that Rayon has an almost Occam like syntax: https://github.com/bgreenwell/lstr/blob/44b9bbf118ca90558138... although you subsequently went with a library that bundles parallel filesystem traversal.

In Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

JoshTriplett·Jun 18, 2025

> The binary is also 53M That's a debug binary, and the vast majority of that is debug symbols. A release build of this project is 4.3M, an order of magnitude smaller. Also, compiling out the default features of the git2 crate eliminates several dependencies and reduces it further to 3.6M. https://github.com/bgreenwell/lstr/pull/5 https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/pull/1168 Stripping the binary further improves it to 2.9M, and some further optimizations get it to 2.2M without any compromise to performance. (You can get it smaller by optimizing for size, but I wouldn't recommend that unless you really do value size more than performance.)

In Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

w108bmg·Jun 18, 2025Submission

Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

Hi HN, (First time poster!) I'm the author of `lstr`. I've always loved the classic Linux `tree` command for its simplicity, but I often found myself wanting more modern features like interactivity and Git integration. So, I decided to build my own version in Rust with a philosophy of being fast, minimalist, and interactive. It was also an excuse to help learn more about Rust\! Here's a quick look at the interactive mode: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bgreenwell/lstr/main/asset... I've just released v0.2.0 with some features I think this community might find useful: * **Interactive TUI Mode:** You can launch it with `lstr interactive`. It allows for keyboard-driven navigation, expanding/collapsing directories, and opening files in your default editor. * **Git Status Integration:** Using the `-G` flag, `lstr` will show the Git stat

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us of every file and directory right in the tree output. * **Shell Integration:** This is my favorite feature. In interactive mode, you can press `Ctrl+s` to quit and have `lstr` print the selected path to stdout. This lets you pipe it into other commands or use it as a visual `cd`. For example, you can add this function to your `.bashrc`/`.zshrc`: ```bash lcd() { local selected_path selected_path="$(lstr interactive -gG)" if [[ -n "$selected_path" && -d "$selected_path" ]]; then cd "$selected_path" fi } ``` Then just run `lcd` to visually pick a directory and jump to it. It also supports file-type icons (via Nerd Fonts), file sizes, permissions, and respects your `.gitignore`. The project is open-source and I would love to get your feedback. GitHub: https://github.com/bgreenwell/lstr Crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/lstr Thanks for checking it out!

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