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Show HN: Purge – A disk cleanup utility
- voltagex_ 12y agoI'm a long time user of ncdu and derivatives - how's this different?
- wastedintel 12y agoHadn't heard of ncdu before, but at a first glance, it does look very similar. Purge doesn't do all of its calculation ahead of time, but when you enter the directory (and uses concurrency). The rendering libraries are also different (ncurses vs. termbox), and Purge is written in Go, so it'll easily compile for just about any platform. Thanks for the reference to ncdu; good to know about that!
- valarauca1 12y agoLooks interesting. It generates a list of rarely used files and prompts me to delete them? I really wish you'd make a much better explanation. I really don't feel safe giving +x and running something named 'purge' off of a random github entry with a 2 line read me.
- wastedintel 12y agoSorry about that. It's essentially a directory browser that displays file/folder sizes, can sort by file size, and allows you to delete files/folders.