master-of-zen / duviz

Command-line disk space usage visualization utility

What is duviz?

duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.

It's like the plethora of desktop applications and widgets (e.g. Filelight, DaisyDisk, WinDirStat, JDiskReport, TreeSize, SpaceSniffer, ...), but instead of a fancy GUI with animated pie charts and shaded boxes you get a funky "ASCII art style hierarchical tree of bars" in your shell. If that didn't make a lot of sense to you, look at this example of this /opt folder:

$ duviz /opt
________________________________________________________________________________
[                                     /opt                                     ]
[____________________________________3.30GB____________________________________]
[                                    local                                     ]
[____________________________________3.30GB____________________________________]
[              var              ][        lib         ][ share  ][Libr][lib][]|
[_____________1.36GB____________][______925.47MB______][411.37MB][231.][222][]|
[           macports           ]|[gcc][gcc4][]|||      [][]||||||[Fra]|[gc] |
[____________1.36GB____________]|[250][226.][]|||      [][]||||||[231]|[21] |
[    software    ][distfile][]| |           ||  |      | ||||||||[Pyt] [x8]
[____785.31MB____][421.56MB][]| |           ||  |      | ||||||||[231] [21]
[gc][][]||||||||||||||||||||[]               |            ||| |  [Ve]  ||[]
[17][][]||||||||||||||||||||[]               |            ||| |  [23]  ||[]

Features

• Basically it consists of just one Python 3 script duviz.py. No installation required: put it where you want it. Use it how you want it.
• Only uses standard library and just depends on du and ls utilities, which are available out of the box on a typical Unix platform (Linux, macOS)
• Speed. No need to wait for a GUI tool to get up and running, let alone scanning your disk. The hard work is done by du (or ls), which run an C-speed.
• Progress reporting while you wait. Be hypnotized!
• Detects your terminal width for maximum visualization pleasure.
• Apart from file size (the default), you can also just count files (inodes)

Installation

With Pip

duviz can be installed through pip (e.g. in a virtual env):

pip install duviz

which will install the duviz utility to the corresponding bin folder.

With Homebrew

duviz can also be installed with Homebrew:

brew install https://raw.github.com/soxofaan/duviz/master/extra/homebrew/duviz.rb

No installation

The file duviz.py is also intended to be usable as a standalone Python script, without having to install it. Download duviz.py to some location of your liking and run it:

python path/to/duviz.py

Python 2 Support

duviz was originally (2009) a Python 2 script, and started supporting Python 3 around 2016. With the end of life of Python 2 nearing in 2019, support for Python 2 was dropped. The Python 2 compatible version can be found in the py2-compatible branch (last release: 1.1.1).

Usage

If you run duviz without arguments, it will render the disk usage of the current working folder. If you specify one or more directories, it will render the usage of those directories, how intuitive is that!

Instead of size in bytes, you can also get inode usage: just use the option --inodes (or -i in short).

Run it with option --help for more options.