cdu (Colour du) is a du like command but displays an attractive histogram with optional colours.
With no arguments, cdu reports the disk space for all subdirectories of the current directory. With only one directory argument, cdu reports the disk space for all subdirectories of the given directory. You can also call du with no predefined options.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Option to use a logarithmic histogram.
- Show percentage instead of size.
- Show all directories and subdirectories. The size of each directory include the size of all its subdirectories. There is only one exception for the directory “.”. Its size don’t include its subdirectories (the total size is given by the “Total” line).
- Sort by size.
- Filtering options. For example, you can only display directories which size is greater than a defined amount.
Website: arsunik.free.fr/prog/cdu.html
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Developer: Stephane Levant
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
cdu is written in Perl. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|---|
| dust | Rust | Apache License 2.0 |
| duf | Go | MIT License |
| Duc | C | GNU Lesser General Public License v3 |
| Ncdu | C | GNU GPL v2.0 License |
| gdu | Go | MIT License |
| cull | Go | MIT License |
| dua | Rust | MIT License |
| erdtree | Rust | MIT License |
| pdu | Rust | Apache License 2.0 |
| vizex | Python | MIT License |
| godu | Go | MIT License |
| dutree | Rust | GNU General Public License v3 |
| space | Rust | MIT License |
| darya | Rust | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| diskus | Rust | MIT License or Apache License 2.0 |
| mcdu | Rust | MIT License |
| dirstat-rs | Rust | MIT License |
| diskonaut | Rust | MIT License |
| bonsai | C++ | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| diskard | Rust | MIT License or Apache License 2.0 |
| cdu | Perl | GNU General Public License v2.0 |
| tdu | Go | GNU General Public License v2 |
| duviz | Python | MIT License |
| dut | C | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| whalespotter | Rust | MIT License |
| sn | Rust | BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License |
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