Using `tree`, how do I output files before subdirectories?

Question 1

I tried to combine --dirsfirst and -r, but directories still show up on top, only in reverse alphabetical order. It seems like -r is applied first, which is also indicated by the man pages.

Any other ideas of how I would go about sorting the output of tree so that subdirectories are listed after the files?

Question 2

try simple 'tree -r'

Question 3

That will just reverse the alphabetical order.

Question 4

nvm, I understood your question better now

Question 5

If you came here looking for this answer (as I did), use:

tree --filesfirst

Option --filesfirst was added in version 2.0.0 (12/21/2021)

Question 6

If you use tree -r, then reverse all lines, e.g., using tac and translate the box-characters it looks reasonable:

#!/bin/sh
tree --dirsfirst -r | tac | sed -e 's/\d226\d148\d148/\d226\d148\d140/'
# 0x2514 is lower-left-corner,
# 0x250c is upper-left-corner
# 0x2514: 9492 022424 0x2514 text "%024円" utf8 342円224円224円
# 0x250c: 9484 022414 0x250c text "%014円" utf8 342円224円214円

I got the Unicode value using the character-identifier in vi-like-emacs, and the UTF-8 equivalent using my hex utility.

Here's the end of my /etc directory, to illustrate:

├── xdg
│  ┌── catalog
│  ├── catalog.old
│  ├── docbook-xml.xml
│  ├── docbook-xml.xml.old
│  ├── docbook-xsl.xml
│  ├── docbook-xsl.xml.old
│  ├── rarian-compat.xml
│  ├── sgml-data.xml
│  ├── sgml-data.xml.old
│  ├── xml-core.xml
│  ├── xml-core.xml.old
│  │  ┌── CatalogManager.properties
│  ├── resolver
├── xml
│  ┌── includes
│  ├── xpdfrc
├── xpdf
│  ┌── newuser.zshrc.recommended
│  ├── zlogin
│  ├── zlogout
│  ├── zprofile
│  ├── zshenv
│  ├── zshrc
├── zsh
.

For reference:

UTF-8 encoding table and Unicode characters page with code points U+2500 to U+25FF

Question 7

Thanks, is there an easy solution to make the output look the same as from tree? E.g. I would still like the files in subdirectories to be listed under the subdirectory rather than above it. So the small "tree-branches" would protrude downwards instead of upwards.