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dust — Give an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. See also: `du`, `ncdu`. More inf

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Problem

How to use the dust command: Give an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. See also: du, ncdu. More information: <https://github.com/bootandy/dust#usage>.

Solution

dust — Give an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. See also: du, ncdu. More information: <https://github.com/bootandy/dust#usage>.

Display information for the current directory:

dust

Display information about one or more directories:

dust {{path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...}}

Display 30 directories (defaults to 21):

dust {{[-n|--number-of-lines]}} 30

Display information for the current directory, up to 3 levels deep:

dust {{[-d|--depth]}} 3

Display the largest directories at the top in descending order:

dust {{[-r|--reverse]}}

Ignore a file or directory:

dust {{[-X|--ignore-directory]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

Do not display percent bars and percentages:

dust {{[-b|--no-percent-bars]}}

Code Snippets

Display information for the current directory

dust

Display information about one or more directories

dust {{path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...}}

Display 30 directories (defaults to 21)

dust {{[-n|--number-of-lines]}} 30

Display information for the current directory, up to 3 levels deep

dust {{[-d|--depth]}} 3

Display the largest directories at the top in descending order

dust {{[-r|--reverse]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/dust

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