A small bash script which outputs the contents of a directory as a tree wrapped in LaTeX itemize environments

latex_tree.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	cat <<HELP_USAGE
$(basename $0) <directory>

Prints a tree of all files in the specified directory wrapped in a LaTeX itemize environment.
HELP_USAGE
	exit
fi

function recurse_dir {
	dir="$1"

	echo "\begin{itemize}"

	for file in $(find "$dir" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1); do
		name=$(basename $file)

		#escape filenames for LaTeX
		name="${name//&/\\&}"
		name="${name//\%/\\%}"
		name="${name//$/\\$}"
		name="${name//\#/\\#}"
		name="${name//_/\\_}"
		name="${name//\{/\\\{}"
		name="${name//\}/\\\}}"

		echo "\item $name"

		if [ -d "${file}" ]; then
			recurse_dir "$file"
		fi
	done

	echo "\end{itemize}"
}

recurse_dir "$1"