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I've seen this before. It's a nice visualization. As for the "biggest" script, its not as slow as you think. It's a single
du
call (alongside cheap sort, head and tac) and therefore quite fast. In example in my ~/Documents directory is almost 1 TB big and runningtime biggest Documents
executes it in almost 2 seconds (for the first time after a reboot). Subsequent calls are quicker, 0.6s and then 0.07s. Edit: And BTW, it's a mechanical HDD, not SSD too.Also I like the output of the files or folders and I can even use commandline arguments like
biggest Documents/*.txt
in example. So for me this is enough and exactly what I need.