Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.
It provides a lightweight, fast, and visually structured way to explore disk usage on Linux systems directly in the terminal.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Navigable sidebar displaying folder sizes, sorted by a multithreaded scanning algorithm.
- Pie chart visualization similar to GNOME Baobab:
- Multiple rings representing nested directories.
- Color-coded sections for files and folders.
- Percentage size usage labels for each item.
- Built using CMake and FTXUI for a modern TUI experience.
- Tree and hashmap-based data structure for efficient folder size lookups.
- Dynamic pie chart updates when navigating between folders in the sidebar.
- Pie chart highlighting when hovering over folders or files.
- Asynchronous UI rendering before scan completion.
- User customization via configuration file.
- Ability to remove files / folders.
Website: github.com/LittleBigOwI/bonsai
Support:
Developer: LittleBigOwl
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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