bytes

bytes is a bash utility to calculate the disk space consumed by files within a directory.

Installation

Linux/OSX from source

Clone this repository
cd into the repository
make install

OSX via Homebrew

brew tap haensl/haensl
brew install bytes

Usage

To calculate the total number of bytes consumed by all visible (i.e. non-dot-) files within the current directory (non-recursive), simply enter

bytes

in your terminal.

You can also specify a different directory to calculate the file-size total for:

bytes ~/some/dir

If you want to display the result in a different unit (e.g. kilobytes or megabytes), use the -u option to specify the desired unit.

If you want to include hidden files, i.e. dot-files, in the total, use the -a option.

If you want to include subdirectories into the calculation, use the -r option.

See the Options section for a full list of available options.

Options

`-a | --all`

Include dot-files a.k.a. hidden files into the total.

`-h | --help`

Display usage information.

`-n | --newline`

Do not print a trailing newline character.

`-p | --precision <precision>`

Specify the desired floating point precision (default: 3).

`-r | --recursive`

If set, bytes recursively traverses subdirectories. (default: false)

`-u | --unit <b | kb | mb | gb | tb>`

Use this option to specify the desired unit for the disk space output. Supported units are:

b = bytes (default)
kb = kilobytes (1024 bytes)
mb = megabytes (1024 kilobytes)
gb = gigabytes (1024 megabytes)
tb = terabytes (1024 gigabytes)

`-v | --version`

Display version information.

[No IEC support because we <3 binary and 1+1 still equals 10]

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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