NAME
ncdt - directory tree printer with extended capabilities
SYNOPSIS
ncdt [-db?] [--dirs] [--bitrate] [--prefix text ] [--help] [ directory
[ name ]]
DESCRIPTION
ncdt is a small utility for printing directory trees. It has some
additional features not found in tree(1). Additional capabilities are:
- size field for directories displays the summary size of
directory subtree instead of the size of the special file (which
is somewhat more useful)
- sizes are displayed in a more readable format (that’s a minor
improvement, but it helps a little)
- MP3 files are detected; additional info is displayed for them
(which is probably the nicest thing about NcdT) The info is
displayed in a compact form, like <2:53 v168JR+> where 2:53 is
play time, v (if present) means the file is encoded using VBR,
168 is bitrate (average bitrate for VBR files), J describes
channel encoding (Mono, Stereo, Joint-Stereo, Dual channel), R
(if present) means the file has a RIFF header at the beginning,
+ (if present) means the file has ID3v2 tag attached - (if
present) means there’s no ID3 tag at all (none of these means
there’s only ID3v1 tag present).
NcdT is particularily nice for indexing CDs.
OPTIONS
-d --dirs
Print only directories, omit files. This mode is a rough
equivalent of du(1).
-b --bitrate
Print bitrate info for directories. Bitrates are displayed both
for ordinary files and directories. If all MP3 files in a given
directory subtree have the same bitrate only one number is
printed, if they have various bitrates the range is printed.
--prefix text
Prefix listing with given text. This option is not intended for
general use. It might be used by programs using NcdT to index
CDsor doing similar operations to record additional information.
-? --help
Display usage summary.
USAGE
When called without any parameters ncdt displays directory tree for
current directory (.).
When called with one parameter ncdt displays directory tree for
specified directory.
When called with two parameters ncdt displays directory tree for the
directory specified as its first parameter. Second parameter is used
as directory label for the top level directory (instead of directory
name from parameter 1).
EXAMPLES
ncdt prints directory tree for the current directory. It will be
labeled .
ncdt /usr
prints directory tree of /usr. It will be labeled /usr
ncdt /cdrom ’CD #21’
prints directory tree of /cdrom. It will be labeled CD #21
ncdt -db /cdrom
lists directory sizes, play times and bitrate ranges
SEE ALSO
tree(1), du(1)
BUGS
NcdT uses quite a lot of memory. It’s also not very fast, but on a
decent CPU it should not be noticeable.
There are no real bugs I’m aware of. I don’t think there are any now.
AUTHOR
Pawel Wiecek <coven@vmh.net>
NcdT(1)