> broot solves this problem by being aware of the size of your terminal window and adapting its output to fit it.
What? You can just pipe `tree` into `less`. The solution isn't to download Yet Another Binary that does this specific thing and doesn't come installed on most platforms.
/s
ls **(.)
I wish there was a better pager than less though, but haven't really found it (and no, Rust project X with 115 different colours that don't even work on a light background and/or "fuzzy" matching that never gives me what I want is not it).
Have you ever tried to pipe `tree` into `less` in a real code directory, with directories containing thousands of files ? That solves no problem.
The idea of broot isn't just to "be aware of the size of your terminal": its view is BFS based to show you a useful overview.
See explanation here: https://dystroy.org/broot/#get-an-overview-of-a-directory-ev...
Which makes sense, this is an article for people on Apple hardware (judging by the installation instructions), so no interest in keeping things "the unix way of doing things"
I'd argue that Linux is more Unixy than macOS in terms of philosophy though, I remember reading that Dennis Ritchie considered Linux as much of a Unix as the other offerings on the market at the time which were the BSDs and commercial Unix variants; his opinion is obviously worth thousands of mine!