whalespotter
| Crates.io | whalespotter |
| lib.rs | whalespotter |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| created_at | 2019-08-01 20:24:45.314825+00 |
| updated_at | 2023-06-30 19:30:22.040419+00 |
| description | Find Big and Fat Files and Folders |
| homepage | |
| repository | https://github.com/Canop/broot |
| max_upload_size | |
| id | 153619 |
| size | 76,240 |
Denys Séguret (Canop)
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a convenient application to fast locate fat files and folders (linux & mac)
Installation
The simplest solution is to execute
cargo install --locked whalespotter
Usage
Pass the desired path:
whalespotter ~
- Hit ctrl-q to quit
- ↑ and ↓ to select and enter to open",
- enter to open the selected directory (in whalespotter) or file (with
xdg-open) - esc to either unselect, or go to parent, or quit
- pageUp and pageDown to scroll
- F5 to refresh
Note: reported sizes take blocks into account, so they may be smaller than the nominal size for the rare sparse files.
Whalespotter is dedicated to one use case: spotting big directories and files. If your goal is to clean your disk, you might be interested in the more recent set of tools I developped. They're described in this blog post.