Representing Directory & File Structure in Markdown Syntax [closed]

Question

I want to describe directory & file structures in some of my Jekyll blog posts, does Markdown provide a neat way of outputting such a thing?

For example, you can see at this link on the Jekyll website that the directory & file structure is output on the page very neatly:

. ├── _config.yml ├── _drafts │   ├── begin-with-the-crazy-ideas.textile │   └── on-simplicity-in-technology.markdown ├── _includes │   ├── footer.html │   └── header.html ├── _layouts │   ├── default.html │   └── post.html ├── _posts │   ├── 2007-10-29-why-every-programmer-should-play-nethack.textile │   └── 2009-04-26-barcamp-boston-4-roundup.textile ├── _data │   └── members.yml ├── _site └── index.html 

I believe the line block characters above are Unicode (as described in this answer here), but I am not sure how Markdown or different browsers will handle them. I was hoping that Markdown had included some way of doing this which outputs as the Unicode characters above perhaps.

Answer 1

I followed an example in another repository and wrapped the directory structure within a pair of triple backticks (```):

``` project │   README.md │   file001.txt     │ └───folder1 │   │   file011.txt │   │   file012.txt │   │ │   └───subfolder1 │       │   file111.txt │       │   file112.txt │       │   ... │    └───folder2     │   file021.txt     │   file022.txt ```