Re: [PLUG] du,sed,sql,free tools

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Just to be clear, `ncdu` automates the recursive manual `du` process you describe, making it *much* easier and faster.

On 2/22/22 21:49, Michael Lazin via plug wrote:
> I used to deal with space issues on shared hosting servers and ran "du -sh ./*" in the root directory to find the biggest directory, descend into it and run it again until I found the files that hog space. I showed this to a Mac user once and it blew their mind, it does work in MacOS and it does not have any decent utility to do this like Windows does.  I realize this is slightly off-topic but I find this really handy on Linux and MacOS.
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 8:32 PM JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>> wrote:
...
>      > Anyone using du may also want to take a look at ncdu. Ncdu is a small,
>      > lightweight ncurses version of du. The screen is already sorted, you can
>      > navigate in/out of folders, and the display includes a simple bar chart
>      > (of #'s) to show items relative size to each other. You can switch the
>      > chart display between chart, percentage, both, and none via the "g" key.
>      > You can also delete stuff from within ncdu.
>
>     +10 for `ncdu`.



Later,
JP
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