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It feels like swiss army knife of 'ls' that tries to do everything in one, and I hope more features are added, such as showing directory size, which would be a

It feels like swiss army knife of 'ls' that tries to do everything in one, and I hope more features are added, such as showing directory size, which would be a killer feature. I hate using 'du' or 'ncdu'. I installed in Ubuntu (and WSL) by downloading the zip file and also 1 dependency by `sudo apt-get install libgit2-24' Edit: It's also fast, and I'm beginning to think Rust is really good for making speedy commandline tool, as I'm a big fan of 'ripgrep', another popular tool written in Rust.

nonsince 9y ago
Rust is my favourite language for code that has to run on end-users' computers. It's also my favourite language in general, but for that specific usecase it's leagues ahead of the competition in my opinion.
hk__2 9y ago
> I hate using 'du' Why? On the other hand, I like to have small tools that do one thing and do it well, and that you can combine to do more powerful things. Personal preference, I guess.
- johnny22 9y ago
  hmm, but is it important that the small tools are actually developed separately? or just that you can call them separately? An example would be busybox, which can decide which executable to pretend to be by the target name.
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- emodendroket 9y ago
  I think in a lot of cases it's kind of nice to just get this all in one command.
- prewett 9y ago
  In my case the problem is I'm running out of disk space and need to find stuff to delete. So, `du -csh `. Wow, three huge directories. `cd dir1; du -csh `. Repeat. `du -d 3` would seem to be the solution, but it is pretty noisy. I really want something that prints all the "big" stuff in a tree, nicely indented and sorted by size. I end up using a KDE app ported to macOS that shows all the big files in packed rectangles, but can't remember the name.
  - urbanj 9y ago
    Try ncdu - https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu It's quite useful and fast
  - shric 9y ago
    Probably KDirStat / WinDirStat / Disk Inventory X
  - bennofs 9y ago
    Ncdu is a command line application that does this (a tree with sizes)
  - hk__2 9y ago
    I have the same issue with the same solution. It’s called Disk Inventory X on macOS.
  - kbenson 9y ago
    What you're looking for is du -hc | sort -hn | tail No need to visit subdirectories. Throw in a tee /tmp/du.out before the tail to make your life easier.
khedoros1 9y ago
> such as showing directory size, which would be a killer feature. 'ls' (and 'exa') is nice because it's pretty fast. If I'm going to use 'du', I'm wading in with the assumption that it'll take a while. It'd be a cool option to add, but I don't think it should do it by default.
dilap 9y ago
ripgrep is amazing. people are starting to do really cool stuff in rust (alacritty also comes to mind) -- it definitely makes me feel optimistic about the language. (i've never done more than just poke at it.)

nonsince 9y ago

Rust is my favourite language for code that has to run on end-users' computers. It's also my favourite language in general, but for that specific usecase it's leagues ahead of the competition in my opinion.

hk__2 9y ago

> I hate using 'du' Why? On the other hand, I like to have small tools that do one thing and do it well, and that you can combine to do more powerful things. Personal preference, I guess.

johnny22 9y ago
hmm, but is it important that the small tools are actually developed separately? or just that you can call them separately? An example would be busybox, which can decide which executable to pretend to be by the target name.
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emodendroket 9y ago
I think in a lot of cases it's kind of nice to just get this all in one command.
prewett 9y ago
In my case the problem is I'm running out of disk space and need to find stuff to delete. So, `du -csh `. Wow, three huge directories. `cd dir1; du -csh `. Repeat. `du -d 3` would seem to be the solution, but it is pretty noisy. I really want something that prints all the "big" stuff in a tree, nicely indented and sorted by size. I end up using a KDE app ported to macOS that shows all the big files in packed rectangles, but can't remember the name.
- urbanj 9y ago
  Try ncdu - https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu It's quite useful and fast
- shric 9y ago
  Probably KDirStat / WinDirStat / Disk Inventory X
- bennofs 9y ago
  Ncdu is a command line application that does this (a tree with sizes)
- hk__2 9y ago
  I have the same issue with the same solution. It’s called Disk Inventory X on macOS.
- kbenson 9y ago
  What you're looking for is du -hc | sort -hn | tail No need to visit subdirectories. Throw in a tee /tmp/du.out before the tail to make your life easier.

khedoros1 9y ago

> such as showing directory size, which would be a killer feature. 'ls' (and 'exa') is nice because it's pretty fast. If I'm going to use 'du', I'm wading in with the assumption that it'll take a while. It'd be a cool option to add, but I don't think it should do it by default.

dilap 9y ago

ripgrep is amazing. people are starting to do really cool stuff in rust (alacritty also comes to mind) -- it definitely makes me feel optimistic about the language. (i've never done more than just poke at it.)