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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

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.


function szup() {

description='
#:    Title: szup
#: Synopsis: sort all items within a directory according to size
#:     Date: 2016-05-30
#:  Version: 0.0.5
#:  Options: -h | --help: print short usage info
#:         : -v | --version: print version number
'

funcname=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:    Title: ' | sed 's/#:    Title: //g')
version=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:  Version: ' | sed 's/#:  Version: //g')
updated="$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:     Date: ' | sed 's/#:     Date: //g')"

	function usage() {
		printf "\n%s\n" "$funcname : $version : $updated"
		printf "%s\n" ""
	}

	function sortdir() {
		Chars="$(printf "    %s" "inspecting " "$(pwd)" | wc -c)"
		divider=====================
		divider=$divider$divider$divider$divider
		format="    %-${Chars}.${Chars}s %35s\n"
		totalwidth="$(ls -1 | /usr/local/bin/gwc -L)"
		totalwidth=$(echo $totalwidth | grep -o [0-9]\\+)
		Chars=$(echo $Chars | grep -o [0-9]\\+)
		if [ "$totalwidth" -lt "$Chars" ]; then
			longestvar="$Chars"
		else
			longestvar="$totalwidth"
		fi
		shortervar=$(/Users/danyoung/bin/qc "$longestvar"*.8)
		shortervar=$(printf "%1.0f\n" "$shortervar")
		echo "$shortervar"
		printf "\n    %s\n" "inspecting $(pwd)"
		printf "    %$shortervar.${longestvar}s\n" "$divider"
		theOutput="$(du -hs "${theDir}"/* | gsort -hr)"
		Condensed="$(echo -n "$theOutput" | awk '{ print $1","$2 }')"
		unset arr
		declare -a arr
		arr=($(echo "$Condensed"))
		Count="$(echo "$(printf "%s\n" "${arr[@]}")" | wc -l)"
		Count=$((Count-1))
		for i in $(seq 1 $Count); do
		read var1 var2 <<< "$(printf "%s\n" "${arr[$i]}" | sed 's/,/ /g')"
		printf "   %5s    %-16s\n" "$var1" "${var2//\/*\//./}"
		done
		echo
	}

	case "$1" in
		-h|--help)
			usage
			return 0
			;;
		*)
			:
			;;
	esac

     if [ -z "$1" ]; then
             oldDir="$(pwd)"
             cd "${1}"
             local theDir="$(pwd)"
             sortdir
             cd "$oldDir"
             return 0
     else
     		:
             oldDir="$(pwd)"
             cd "${1}"
             local theDir="$(pwd)"
             sortdir
             cd "$oldDir"
             return 0
     fi
}```


Screenshot isn't working. I'll reply to this with it.
[-] Archr@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Is this effectively the same as: du -hs * | sort -h?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

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.

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