This is a small helper script to turn this:
into this:
which makes it easier to spot which directories are worth investigating when you need to clean up disk space (without going full ncdu or baobab).
Install the requirements (pip install -r ./requirements.txt), put the
colordu.py script somewhere, then alias it in your ~/.bashrc (or other
shell config), as follows:
alias du="/path/to/colordu.py"
Open a new terminal or run source ~/.bashrc, then use du like you normally
would.
There are some colorschemes defined, you can switch to them by setting the
COLORDU_SCHEME environment variable, as follows:
COLORDU_SCHEME="YLORBR" du -sh *
Supported colorschemes are sourced from this excellent guide on color schemes:
NONE # disable color
DISCRETE_RAINBOW # rainbow v1
SMOOTH_RAINBOW # rainbow v2
SUNSET # sunset (default)
YLORBR # yellow, orange, brown
PARTIAL_SUNSET # partial sunset
Mainly tested with du and du -sh. Argument to du are not parsed, so
things like --block-size are not supported. Assumes your terminal is using
utf-8 encoding.
See LICENSE file for licensing information. Copyright (c) G.J.J. van den Burg.
I made this for myself and will offer only very limited support.