Tree-To-file

PowerShell script to save the tree structure of a project to text file, excluding the inside of node_modules directory.

I needed a quick way to generate a text file with the tree scructure of a project. Since it was primarily for use with AI I wanted the file to exclude the inside of the node_modules directory as that can be huge and the contents can be inferred usually anyway from the rest of the project.

Of course the directory to be truncated in the script can be changed just by replacing node_modules with the name of another directory. The directory will still be listed properly in the tree output in the text file, except the directory will show as empty.

First you need to install Tree with a package manager. I recommend Chocolatey as a package manager.

You can run the PowerShell script from the parent directory containing the PowerShell folder the directory with:

.\powershell\tree-exclude_modules.ps1

If you get an error about permissions you can temporarily bypass that with:

PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\powershell\tree-exclude_modules.ps1  

Tree Text File Content Example

I thought to add an example of the text file output could look using this repo as an example (got to love being recursive). This project wouldnt include node_modules but this should give you a better idea what this repo does.

Folder PATH listing
C:.
|   LICENSE
|   ProjectTreeStructure.txt
|   README.md
|   
\---powershell
        tree-exclude_modules.ps1