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authorbootandy <bootandy@gmail.com>2018-04-06 21:07:13 +0100
committerbootandy <bootandy@gmail.com>2018-04-06 21:07:13 +0100
commit2fe3943ed5009d31eff63cf07c992256550ea7c6 (patch)
treeb4925d5ab0448e937789a0416ad46676cc100880
parentb8ad44b7f0f40b2691704b22d52d9406418958f2 (diff)
Update readmev0.2.2
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ du + rust = dust. A rust alternative to du
To install:
* Download linux / mac binary from [Releases](https://github.com/bootandy/dust/releases)
* unzip file: tar -xvf <file>
- * copy file to search path: sudo cp <file> /usr/local/bin/
+ * copy file to search path: sudo mv dust /usr/local/bin/
Unlike du, dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust does not count file system blocks; it uses file sizes instead. Dust will print a maximum of 1 'Did not have permissions message'.
@@ -44,4 +44,8 @@ djin:git/dust> dust
```
Performance: dust is currently about 4 times slower than du.
+Alternatives:
+ * [NCDU](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu)
+ * du -d 1 -h | sort -h
+
Note: Apparent-size is calculated slightly differently in dust to gdu. In dust each hard link is counted as using file_length space. In gdu only the first entry is counted.