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Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive
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ncdu is the best utility for this type of thing. I use it all the time.
I install ncdu on any machine I set up, because installing it when it's needed may be tricky
Try dua. It's like ncdu but uses multiple threads so it's a lot faster., especially on SSDs.
Why does it suck that it's written in Go?
So you hate a language just because who it's associated with. That's dumb. Go is an awesome language, I used it at work for 2 years.
Garbage collected languages will never not be at least slightly ick
Edit: I did not expect this to be so controversial, especially in regard to go, but I stand by my statement.
absurd take
Counterpoint: I've never used Go myself, but I love that Go apps usually seem to be statically-linked executables. I have a few utilities (such as runitor) that I 'deploy' to my servers by just copying them into /usr/local/bin using Ansible.
Go is awesome, yet a slight pain in the ass some ways, but you get used to it. I was doing DevOps stuff with it for 3 years. I like it so much more than python.
Yes, it looks very similar. The guy of ncdu is making a new improved and faster version in Zig.
For great justice?