🌳 PBTree

PBTree is like pbcopy, but supercharged. 🚀

✨ Features

• 🖥️ Interactive file navigation
• 🔍 Quick search
• ✅ Multi-select files and folders
• 📋 Copy selected content to clipboard as XML

🎯 Perfect for adding context to Claude

PBTree generates XML output, making it ideal for crafting prompts for Claude AI! Claude loves structured data in XML tags. 🤖❤️

🛠️ Build & install

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/patricktrainer/pbtree.git
   cd pbtree

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Build the project:

   npm run build

4. Link the package globally:

   npm link

Alternatively, you can use the rebuild script to do all of the above:

npm run rebuild

🕹️ How to use

After building and linking, simply run pbtree in your terminal:

pbtree

• ⌨️ Type to search.
• ⬆️ ⬇️ Move up and down the list
• ⬅️ ➡️ Navigate back and forth between folders
• space Select or deselect the current item (file or folder)
• ⏎ return Copy selected content to the clipboard and exit.

👨‍💻 Development

To run PBTree in development mode:

npm run dev

This uses ts-node to run the TypeScript files directly.

📦 Dependencies

• react and ink for the CLI interface
• clipboardy for clipboard operations

Check package.json for the full list of dependencies and their versions.

🤝 Contribute

Contributions welcome! 🎉

1. Fork the repo
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

🪂 Enjoy!