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eza (formerly exa, ls replacement) can now show the actual total size of directory contents
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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.Is this effectively the same as:
du -hs * | sort -h
?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.Thanks! I always appreciate another tool for this. I tried to run it but have dep issues.
What is
gwc
? I can't find a package by that name nor is it included that I can see.Websearch finds GeoWebCache, Gnome Wave Cleaner, GtkWaveCleaner, several IT companies... nothing that looks relevant.
edit: also stumped looking for
gsort
. it seems to be associated with something called STATA which is statistical analysis software. Is that something you are involved with maybe running some special stuff on your system?PS you missed a newline at the end before closing the code block which is why the image was showing up as markdown instead of displaying properly.
Change:
to:
Aha with the new line! Thank you!
I believe
gwc
andgsort
are part ofcoreutils
based on this: