cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/13814482
I just noticed that
eza
can now display total disk space used by directories!I think this is pretty cool. I wanted it for a long time.
There are other ways to get the information of course. But having it integrated with all the other options for listing directories is fab.
eza
has features like--git
-awareness,--tree
display, clickable--hyperlink
, filetype--icons
and other display, permissions, dates, ownerships, and other stuff. being able to mash everything together in any arbitrary way which is useful is handy. And of course you can--sort=size
docs:
--total-size show the size of a directory as the size of all files and directories inside (unix only)
It also (optionally) color codes the information. Values measures in kb, mb, and gb are clear. Here is a screenshot to show that:
eza --long -h --total-size --sort=oldest --no-permissions --no-user
Of course it take a little while to load large directories so you will not want to use by default.
Looks like it was first implemented Oct 2023 with some fixes since then. (Changelog). PR #533 - feat: added recursive directory parser with `–total-size` flag by Xemptuous
Off topic, but maybe someone will appreciate this. I wrote a function to get the size of contents of a dir a while back. It has a couple of dependencies (
gc
,gwc
at a glance), but should be fairly portable. The results are sorted from greatest to least as shown in the screenshot.Is this effectively the same as:
du -hs * | sort -h
?Hahaha. I may have spent a lot of time creating a script to implement functionality that was already there.
du -hs * | sort -h -r
, I guess.Thanks! I always appreciate another tool for this. I tried to run it but have dep issues.
What is
gwc
? I can’t find a package by that name nor is it included that I can see.Websearch finds GeoWebCache, Gnome Wave Cleaner, GtkWaveCleaner, several IT companies… nothing that looks relevant.
edit: also stumped looking for
gsort
. it seems to be associated with something called STATA which is statistical analysis software. Is that something you are involved with maybe running some special stuff on your system?PS you missed a newline at the end before closing the code block which is why the image was showing up as markdown instead of displaying properly.
Change:
}```
to:
} ```
Aha with the new line! Thank you!
I believe
gwc
andgsort
are part ofcoreutils
based on this:$ gwc --help Usage: gwc [OPTION]... [FILE]... or: gwc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a nonempty sequence of non white space delimited by white space characters or by start or end of input. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length. -c, --bytes print the byte counts -m, --chars print the character counts -l, --lines print the newline counts --files0-from=F read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input -L, --max-line-length print the maximum display width -w, --words print the word counts --total=WHEN when to print a line with total counts; WHEN can be: auto, always, only, never --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit GNU coreutils online help: Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'