Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' '{ print $2, "\t", $1, "\t", $3 }' | sort -rn

This, like the other commands listed here, displays installed arch packages. Unlike the other ones this also displays the short description so you can see what that package does without having to go to google. It also shows the largest packages on top. You can optionally pipe this through head to display an arbitrary number of the largest packages installed (e.g. ... | head -30 # for the largest 30 packages installed)

Sample Output

 253888.00 KiB    wine    A compatibility layer for running Windows programs
 241743.00 KiB    libreoffice-common      common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites
 121212.00 KiB    openjdk6        Free Java environment based on OpenJDK 6.0 with IcedTea6 replacing binary plugs.
 108232.00 KiB    chromium        The open-source project behind Google Chrome, an attempt at creating a safer, faster, and more stable browser

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By: GetterNoCheddar

2012-11-20 03:40:55

awk cut grep paste sort archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages

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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This one-liner will output installed packages sorted by size in Kilobytes. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
65120.00K   gcc
66452.00K   python
68012.00K   chromium-dev
68192.00K   smbclient
68804.00K   mysql
70392.00K   python2
71644.00K   kdelibs
72196.00K   firefox-pgo
73672.00K   nvidia-utils
82684.00K   xulrunner
92388.00K   plan9port
96380.00K   jre
111932.00K  qt
115872.00K  kernel26
148360.00K  acroread
301619.00K  libreoffice
[me@arch ~/bin]
```
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paste <(pacman -Q | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs pacman -Qi | grep 'Size' | awk '{ print $4$5; }') <(pacman -Q | awk '{print $1; }') | sort -n | column -t

BruceLEET · 2011-01-07 18:43:18 8
Arch Linux sort installed packages by size
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qq)|grep 'Name\|Size'| cut -d: -f2 | paste - - | column -t | sort -nk2

minus · 2011-05-03 13:02:06 5
Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

M is size in megabytes, man expac to see other sizes %m is install size %k is download size
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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expac -S -H M "%m %n"|sort -n

gtmanfred · 2012-06-14 19:41:21 4
Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This version accounts for the MiB/KiB suffix output by pacman these days.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' 'BEGIN{ s["MiB"]=1024; s["KiB"]=1;} {split($3, a, " "); print a[1] * s[a[2]], "KiB", $1}' | sort -n

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