some_guy , 4 months ago

Off topic, but maybe someone will appreciate this. I wrote a function to get the size of contents of a dir a while back. It has a couple of dependencies (gc, gwc at a glance), but should be fairly portable. The results are sorted from greatest to least as shown in the screenshot.

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</span><span style="color:#323232;">function szup() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">description='
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:    Title: szup
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#: Synopsis: sort all items within a directory according to size
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:     Date: 2016-05-30
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:  Version: 0.0.5
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:  Options: -h | --help: print short usage info
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:         : -v | --version: print version number
</span><span style="color:#323232;">'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">funcname=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:    Title: ' | sed 's/#:    Title: //g')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">version=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:  Version: ' | sed 's/#:  Version: //g')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">updated="$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:     Date: ' | sed 's/#:     Date: //g')"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	function usage() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "n%sn" "$funcname : $version : $updated"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "%sn" ""
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	function sortdir() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Chars="$(printf "    %s" "inspecting " "$(pwd)" | wc -c)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		divider=====================
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		divider=$divider$divider$divider$divider
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		format="    %-${Chars}.${Chars}s %35sn"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		totalwidth="$(ls -1 | /usr/local/bin/gwc -L)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		totalwidth=$(echo $totalwidth | grep -o [0-9]\+)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Chars=$(echo $Chars | grep -o [0-9]\+)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		if [ "$totalwidth" -lt "$Chars" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			longestvar="$Chars"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			longestvar="$totalwidth"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		shortervar=$(/Users/danyoung/bin/qc "$longestvar"*.8)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		shortervar=$(printf "%1.0fn" "$shortervar")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		echo "$shortervar"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "n    %sn" "inspecting $(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "    %$shortervar.${longestvar}sn" "$divider"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		theOutput="$(du -hs "${theDir}"/* | gsort -hr)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Condensed="$(echo -n "$theOutput" | awk '{ print $1","$2 }')"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		unset arr
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		declare -a arr
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		arr=($(echo "$Condensed"))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Count="$(echo "$(printf "%sn" "${arr[@]}")" | wc -l)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Count=$((Count-1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		for i in $(seq 1 $Count); do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		read var1 var2 <<< "$(printf "%sn" "${arr[$i]}" | sed 's/,/ /g')"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "   %5s    %-16sn" "$var1" "${var2///*//./}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		echo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	case "$1" in
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		-h|--help)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			usage
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			return 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			;;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		*)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			;;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	esac
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     if [ -z "$1" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             oldDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "${1}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             local theDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             sortdir
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "$oldDir"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             return 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     		:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             oldDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "${1}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             local theDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             sortdir
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "$oldDir"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             return 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}```
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Screenshot isn't working. I'll reply to this with it.
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