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A more intuitive version of du in rust
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# Dust



du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive.



# Why



Because I want an easy way to see where my disk is being used.



# Demo



![Example](media/snap.png)



## Install



#### Cargo Packaging status



- `cargo install du-dust`



#### 🍺 Homebrew (Mac OS)



- `brew install dust`



#### 🍺 Homebrew (Linux)



- `brew tap tgotwig/linux-dust && brew install dust`



#### [Pacstall](https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall) (Debian/Ubuntu)



- `pacstall -I dust-bin`



#### [deb-get](https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get) (Debian/Ubuntu)



- `deb-get install du-dust`



#### Windows:



- `scoop install dust`

- Windows GNU version - works

- Windows MSVC - requires: [VCRUNTIME140.dll](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170)



#### Download



- Download Linux/Mac binary from [Releases](https://github.com/bootandy/dust/releases)

- unzip file: `tar -xvf _downloaded_file.tar.gz`

- move file to executable path: `sudo mv dust /usr/local/bin/`



## Overview



Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one 'Did not have permissions message'.



Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a '-d' flag or a '-h' flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.



The different colors on the bars: These represent the combined tree hierarchy & disk usage. The shades of grey are used to indicate which parent folder a subfolder belongs to. For instance, look at the above screenshot. `.steam` is a folder taking 44% of the space. From the `.steam` bar is a light grey line that goes up. All these folders are inside `.steam` so if you delete `.steam` all that stuff will be gone too.



## Usage



```

Usage: dust

Usage: dust 

Usage: dust    

Usage: dust -p (full-path - Show fullpath of the subdirectories)

Usage: dust -s (apparent-size - shows the length of the file as opposed to the amount of disk space it uses)

Usage: dust -n 30  (Shows 30 directories instead of the default [default is terminal height])

Usage: dust -d 3  (Shows 3 levels of subdirectories)

Usage: dust -D (Show only directories (eg dust -D))

Usage: dust -F (Show only files - finds your largest files)

Usage: dust -r (reverse order of output)

Usage: dust -H (si print sizes in powers of 1000 instead of 1024)

Usage: dust -X ignore  (ignore all files and directories with the name 'ignore')

Usage: dust -x (Only show directories on the same filesystem)

Usage: dust -b (Do not show percentages or draw ASCII bars)

Usage: dust -B (--bars-on-right - Percent bars moved to right side of screen])

Usage: dust -i (Do not show hidden files)

Usage: dust -c (No colors [monochrome])

Usage: dust -f (Count files instead of diskspace)

Usage: dust -t (Group by filetype)

Usage: dust -z 10M (min-size, Only include files larger than 10M)

Usage: dust -e regex (Only include files matching this regex (eg dust -e "\.png$" would match png files))

Usage: dust -v regex (Exclude files matching this regex (eg dust -v "\.png$" would ignore png files))

Usage: dust -L (dereference-links - Treat sym links as directories and go into them)

Usage: dust -P (Disable the progress indicator)

Usage: dust -R (For screen readers. Removes bars/symbols. Adds new column: depth level. (May want to use -p for full path too))

Usage: dust -S (Custom Stack size - Use if you see: 'fatal runtime error: stack overflow' (default allocation: low memory=1048576, high memory=1073741824)"),

Usage: dust --skip-total (No total row will be displayed)

Usage: dust -z 4000000 (Exclude output files/directories below size 4MB)

```



## Config file



Dust has a config file where the above options can be set.

Either: `~/.config/dust/config.toml` or `~/.dust.toml`

```

$ cat ~/.config/dust/config.toml

reverse=true

```



## Alternatives



- [NCDU](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu)

- [dutree](https://github.com/nachoparker/dutree)

- [dua](https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli/)

- [pdu](https://github.com/KSXGitHub/parallel-disk-usage)

- [dirstat-rs](https://github.com/scullionw/dirstat-rs)

- du -d 1 -h | sort -h



Note: Apparent-size is calculated slightly differently in dust to gdu. In dust each hard link is counted as using file_length space. In gdu only the first entry is counted.