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The code calculating the width of a row to use vs the width of the terminal wasn't quite right. If we had 2 long filepaths one at the top of the dir tree and one at the bottom the old code would shorten both equally. This doesn't make sense as the one at the shallowest part of the tree would have used less screen real estate and so should show a longer part of the filepath.
Dust
du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive.
Why
Because I want an easy way to see where my disk is being used.
Demo
Install
Cargo 
cargo install du-dust
🍺 Homebrew (Mac OS)
brew install dust
🍺 Homebrew (Linux)
brew tap tgotwig/linux-dust && brew install dust
Pacstall (Debian/Ubuntu)
pacstall -I dust-bin
Windows:
- Windows GNU version - works
- Windows MSVC - requires: VCRUNTIME140.dll
Download
- Download Linux/Mac binary from Releases
- unzip file:
tar -xvf _downloaded_file.tar.gz - move file to executable path:
sudo mv dust /usr/local/bin/
Overview
Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one 'Did not have permissions message'.
Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a '-d' flag or a '-h' flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.
The different colors on the bars: These represent the combined tree hierarchy & disk usage. The shades of grey are used to indicate which parent folder a subfolder belongs to. For instance, look at the above screenshot. .steam is a folder taking 44% of the space. From the .steam bar is a light grey line that goes up. All these folders are inside .steam so if you delete .steam all that stuff will be gone too.
Usage
Usage: dust
Usage: dust <dir>
Usage: dust <dir> <another_dir> <and_more>
Usage: dust -p (full-path - Show fullpath of the subdirectories)
Usage: dust -s (apparent-size - shows the length of the file as opposed to the amount of disk space it uses)
Usage: dust -n 30 (shows 30 directories instead of the default [default is terminal height])
Usage: dust -d 3 (shows 3 levels of subdirectories)
Usage: dust -r (reverse order of output)
Usage: dust -X ignore (ignore all files and directories with the name 'ignore')
Usage: dust -x (only show directories on the same filesystem)
Usage: dust -b (do not show percentages or draw ASCII bars)
Usage: dust -i (do not show hidden files)
Usage: dust -c (No colors [monochrome])
Usage: dust -f (Count files instead of diskspace)
Usage: dust -t Group by filetype
Usage: dust -e regex Only include files matching this regex (eg dust -e "\.png$" would match png files)
Alternatives
- NCDU
- dutree
- dua
- pdu
- dirstat-rs
- du -d 1 -h | sort -h
Note: Apparent-size is calculated slightly differently in dust to gdu. In dust each hard link is counted as using file_length space. In gdu only the first entry is counted.