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du with colored bar graph

Terminal - du with colored bar graph
t=$(df|awk 'NR!=1{sum+=$2}END{print sum}');sudo du / --max-depth=1|sed '$d'|sort -rn -k1 | awk -v t=$t 'OFMT="%d" {M=64; for (a=0;a<$1;a++){if (a>c){c=a}}br=a/c;b=M*br;for(x=0;x<b;x++){printf "\033[1;31m" "|" "\033[0m"}print " "$2" "(a/t*100)"% total"}'
2011-12-01 01:21:11
User: kevinquinnyo
Functions: awk du sed sort sudo
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du with colored bar graph

i'm using gawk, you may get varying mileage with other varieties. You might want to change the / after du to say, /home/ or /var or something, otherwise this command might take quite some time to complete. Sorry it's so obsfucated, I had to turn a script into a one-liner under 255 characters for commandlinefu. Note: the bar ratio is relative, so the highest ratio of the total disk, "anchors" the rest of the graph. EDIT: the math was slightly wrong, fixed it. Also, made it compliant with older versions of df.

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Getting this error.

du: warning: summarising conflicts with --max-depth=1

Comment by MrMuddle 76 weeks and 5 days ago

Not sure why that would happen. According to the du source code, that should only happen:

if (opt_summarize_only && max_depth_specified && max_depth != 0)

and unless you added a max-depth=0, or -s, i'm not sure why it would give you that error. I'm curios, what version of du are you running, and what OS ?

Comment by kevinquinnyo 76 weeks and 5 days ago

Ubuntu 10.10 x64

du (GNU coreutils) 8.5

Cheers

Comment by MrMuddle 76 weeks and 5 days ago

what happens when you run:

sudo du / --max-depth=1|sort -rn -k1

Comment by kevinquinnyo 76 weeks and 5 days ago

Same thing bud :|

Comment by MrMuddle 76 weeks and 5 days ago

Got it right!

Thanks

Comment by unixmonkey14651 76 weeks and 5 days ago

"for (a=0;ac){c=a}}" this loop is completely useless (and also responsable of the slowness of your command since a can be very large)

substitute it with a=$1; if (a>c){c=a}

Comment by BrokenDroid 75 weeks and 4 days ago

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