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dua — Dua (Disk Usage Analyzer): get the disk space usage of a directory. More information: <https://githu

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Problem

How to use the dua command: Dua (Disk Usage Analyzer): get the disk space usage of a directory. More information: <https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli>.

Solution

dua — Dua (Disk Usage Analyzer): get the disk space usage of a directory. More information: <https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli>.

Analyze specific directory:

dua {{path/to/directory}}

Display apparent size instead of disk usage:

dua --apparent-size

Count hard-linked files each time they are seen:

dua --count-hard-links

Aggregate the consumed space of one or more directories or files:

dua aggregate

Launch the terminal user interface:

dua interactive

Format printing byte counts:

dua --format {{metric|binary|bytes|GB|GiB|MB|MiB}}

Use a specific number of threads (defaults to the process number of threads):

dua --threads {{count}}

Code Snippets

Analyze specific directory

dua {{path/to/directory}}

Display apparent size instead of disk usage

dua --apparent-size

Count hard-linked files each time they are seen

dua --count-hard-links

Aggregate the consumed space of one or more directories or files

dua aggregate

Launch the terminal user interface

dua interactive

Context

tldr-pages: common/dua

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