Public bug reported:
using tree, if the target folder does not exist then the JSON or XML
output options are broken.
XML output (using input flag -X) has no open tag for the name field and
a random close tag for 'unknown'.
JSON output (using input flag -J) creates an array, the JSON object in
the array has no open bracket and the entire 'type' key/value pair is
missing. This makes the JSON object in the array start with a comma.
This issue was discovered on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS using tree version v2.1.1
Functionality is correct and as expected on another machine running Ubuntu
18.04.5 LTS using tree version v1.7.0
Unfortunately I do not have another machine with anything newer than
18.04.5 to test when the issue first appeared.
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1.) $ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release: 24.04
2.) $ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release: 24.04
showhq@showhq-2025:/usr/lib/cgi-bin/tech$ tree --version
tree v2.1.1 © 1996 - 2023 by Steve Baker, Thomas Moore, Francesc Rocher,
Florian Sesser, Kyosuke Tokoro
showhq@showhq-2025:/usr/lib/cgi-bin/tech$ apt-cache policy tree
tree:
Installed: 2.1.1-2ubuntu3
Candidate: 2.1.1-2ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 2.1.1-2ubuntu3 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.) Expected: same as v1.7.0 - valid JSON with the -J flag and valid XML
with the -X flag.
4.) Reality: Invalid JSON and XML
** Affects: tree (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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JSON and XML output broken if path invalid
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