How to format the output of tree in linux so the colour scheme still applies?

Question

How can I format the output of a tree command so that the formatting of ls, e.g. highlighting and colour scheme of directories and certain file types applies to the output? The problem is when I restrict the depth of tree to say 2, if there are any directories in the final level, there is not a noticeable difference between dirs and files. So someway to easily distinguish between the two, whilst displaying both files and dirs would be great. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

tree -C

-C

Turn colorization on always, using built-in color defaults if the LS_COLORS environment variable is not set. Useful to colorize output to a pipe.

see man page.

Answer 2

I usually use tree with Level 2, so this my favorite alias:

tre='tree -CL 2'