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My Linux Command Line Tools (thingsiplay.game.blog)

submitted 5 months ago by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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A short list with categories of my smol terminal focused tools, scripts and functions I have created over the years. There are some general purpose and very specific ones. This list was needed, because in Github it was a bit cluttered. Maybe, just maybe, you find something useful or inspiring in there.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Simce you have Biggest, also try PDU https://github.com/KSXGitHub/parallel-disk-usage

Gives you a cli graph of what folders files are taking up largest percent of space. It runs parallel processes to get the info, so it reports it super fast.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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 running time 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.