cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/13814482

I just noticed that eza can now display total disk space used by directories!

I think this is pretty cool. I wanted it for a long time.

There are other ways to get the information of course. But having it integrated with all the other options for listing directories is fab. eza has features like --git-awareness, --tree display, clickable --hyperlink, filetype --icons and other display, permissions, dates, ownerships, and other stuff. being able to mash everything together in any arbitrary way which is useful is handy. And of course you can --sort=size

docs:

  --total-size               show the size of a directory as the size of all
                             files and directories inside (unix only)

It also (optionally) color codes the information. Values measures in kb, mb, and gb are clear. Here is a screenshot to show that:

eza --long -h --total-size --sort=oldest --no-permissions --no-user

Of course it take a little while to load large directories so you will not want to use by default.

Looks like it was first implemented Oct 2023 with some fixes since then. (Changelog). PR #533 - feat: added recursive directory parser with `–total-size` flag by Xemptuous

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    7 months ago

    Aha with the new line! Thank you!

    I believe gwc and gsort are part of coreutils based on this:

    $ gwc --help
    Usage: gwc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
      or:  gwc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
    Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
    more than one FILE is specified.  A word is a nonempty sequence of non white
    space delimited by white space characters or by start or end of input.
    
    With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
    
    The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in
    the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
      -c, --bytes            print the byte counts
      -m, --chars            print the character counts
      -l, --lines            print the newline counts
          --files0-from=F    read input from the files specified by
                               NUL-terminated names in file F;
                               If F is - then read names from standard input
      -L, --max-line-length  print the maximum display width
      -w, --words            print the word counts
          --total=WHEN       when to print a line with total counts;
                               WHEN can be: auto, always, only, never
          --help        display this help and exit
          --version     output version information and exit
    
    GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
    Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
    or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'