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19 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du

April 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

du is a standard program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system. We recommend alternative commands to du.

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whalespotter finds big files and directories

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

whalespotter is a convenient TUI application to quickly locate large files and folders. It’s written in Rust.

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sn – sniff out build artifacts

December 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sn is a tool to help you find build artifacts. It’s also a replacement for the du command.

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space – disk space analyzer and cleaner

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

space is a command line interface (CLI) utility that can be used to visualize and manage disk space.

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diskus – compute disk usage

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..

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cdu – du like command

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cdu (Colour du) is a du like command but displays an attractive histogram with optional colours.

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diskonaut – TUI disk space navigator

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

diskonaut is a TUI-based terminal disk space navigator. It’s written in Rust.

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dirstat-rs – disk usage cli

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirstat-rs is a command-line disk usage utility, similar to windirstat. The tool can output sorted JSON.

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tdu – top disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This command-line tool estimates the disk space occupied by all files in a given path.

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pdu – parallel disk usage utility

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parallel Disk Usage (pdu) is a highly parallelized, fast directory tree analyzer.

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