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Broadly, is anyone aware of a generalized list of "new versions of classic tools?" There are so many now that are better than the old stuff; I almost feel like a unified round up of these, maybe even in a distro form, might be good for linux enthusiasts, newcomers, old-timers, etc.
I love ncdu and install it on all of my machines. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record - why isn’t its functionality baked into stock file managers on windows and Linux? Why can’t either of these systems do what the Mac has been able to do since the 90s, and display the recursive size of a directory in bytes in the file manager, allowing one to sort directories by recursive size? I am not exaggerating to…
I love ncdu and install it on all of my machines. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record - why isn’t its functionality baked into stock file managers on windows and Linux? Why can’t either of these systems do what the Mac has been able to do since the 90s, and display the recursive size of a directory in bytes in the file manager, allowing one to sort directories by recursive size? I am not exaggerating to…
Many file managers can do that, although for obvious reasons it's rather built as a contextual action on a single directory than an always on feature than would slow down the filesystem horribly by accessing it recursively on many levels. On Thunar (XFCE's file manager) for example it's accessible from the contextual menu opened using the right mouse button on a directory name; other file managers would work in a similar way.
I'm sure filesystems could be modified so that any write would automatically update a field referred by the containing directory, so it would quickly propagate to the upper level, but that would imply many more write accesses which for example on SSD media would do more harm than good.
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The Bash CLI is my file manager. So I've got ncdu built right in. Try it, you'll love it. I almost never touch the rodent.
Except that running "ls" doesn't show you the directory content size, and "ncdu" requires the user to make a tea first. The above poster is right in saying that having this built-in to the filesystem metrics would be a huge win.
I love ncdu and install it on all of my machines. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record - why isn’t its functionality baked into stock file managers on windows and Linux? Why can’t either of these systems do what the Mac has been able to do since the 90s, and display the recursive size of a directory in bytes in the file manager, allowing one to sort directories by recursive size? I am not exaggerating to…
> Why can’t either of these systems do what the Mac has been able to do since the 90s, and display the recursive size of a directory in bytes in the file manager Many file managers can do that, although for obvious reasons it's rather built as a contextual action on a single directory than an always on feature than would slow down the filesystem horribly by accessing it recursively on many levels. On Thunar (XFCE's f…
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> Why can’t either of these systems do what the Mac has been able to do since the 90s, and display the recursive size of a directory in bytes in the file manager Many file managers can do that, although for obvious reasons it's rather built as a contextual action on a single directory than an always on feature than would slow down the filesystem horribly by accessing it recursively on many levels. On Thunar (XFCE's f…
Mac doesn't for me, for a folder it shows size as "--".
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The Bash CLI is my file manager. So I've got ncdu built right in. Try it, you'll love it. I almost never touch the rodent.
Except that running "ls" doesn't show you the directory content size, and "ncdu" requires the user to make a tea first. The above poster is right in saying that having this built-in to the filesystem metrics would be a huge win.
I made jsdu to get progressive (and recursive) size.
I mostly only use jsdu on a few top levels directories, and use ncdu for the rest or after the stats is cached by jsdu.
You can install jsdu with "sudo npm i -g jsdu" or run it without install with "npx jsdu"
If you like ncdu, you might also like dua[0]. You can run `dua i` to get an interface similar to ncdu, and can also run `dua` to list file sizes in the current directory, similar to `du`. Or `dua filename ` to get the size of a given file. [0] https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli
Not in any repo, I'll pass, thanks