Python based utility to emulate the Unix du command, with several improvements. Especially useful for Windows users.
duem: du emulator. (pronounced Do ‘em) Emulates the Unix du command (disk usage), which is commonly used to go down directory (folder) trees and report back on disk usage below each directory.
Basically does something similar to du, but in addition:
duem operating on a directory called Lookup
containing:
AMR/ CPP/ Cprism/ Dyssa/ Figs/ Hydrogen11/ Laminar/ Manual/ Methane22/
Methane32/ Parallel/ Preuse/ Simsim/ Turbjet/ Zerod/
will give, with duem -d 10 Lookup
:
256.2M Lookup [no regular files]
|->10.6M Lookup/Dyssa [25 files: 3.6M]
|->7.0M Lookup/Dyssa/Figs [85 files: 7.0M]
|->14.5K Lookup/Dyssa/Figs/.xvpics [5 files]
|->1.2M Lookup/Hydrogen11 [4 files]
|->2.5M Lookup/Methane32 [32 files: 2.2M]
|->347.2K Lookup/Methane32/src [42 files]
|->3.6K Lookup/Methane32/.xvpics [1 files]
|->26.6M Lookup/Laminar [19 files]
|->20.3K Lookup/Zerod [23 files]
|->29.0M Lookup/Methane22 [35 files]
|->919.9K Lookup/Cprism [55 files: 840.5K]
|->55.1K Lookup/Cprism/NGOZI [16 files]
|->10.3K Lookup/Cprism/Monte [10 files: 5.9K]
|->400b Lookup/Cprism/Monte/CVS [3 files]
|->2.1K Lookup/Cprism/CVS [3 files]
|->177.5M Lookup/AMR [no regular files]
|->1.3M Lookup/AMR/FnlPrism [61 files]
|->176.2M Lookup/AMR/Dimen [115 files]
|->38.9K Lookup/Turbjet [32 files]
|->96.2K Lookup/Manual [8 files]
|->15.2K Lookup/Parallel [2 files]
|->34.2K Lookup/Simsim [23 files]
|->5.5M Lookup/Figs [48 files]
|->348.7K Lookup/CPP [35 files: 323.8K]
|->20.9K Lookup/CPP/Monte [5 files]
|->1.7M Lookup/Preuse [10 files]
Was only necessary to go down 3 levels. --depth 10 was requested.
The file duem_1.5.2.exe is the actual duem binary (made with pyinstaller) and can be placed in any folder the user desires. It has been tested on Windows 10.
Either add this folder to your PATH environment variable, or choose a folder already in your PATH. Or you could add a file named duem.bat
which will consist of something like the following lines:
@echo off
REM This is to run duem, the du emulator
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\PLACE_YOU_DOWNLOADED_TO\duem\duem.exe %*
REM python C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\workspace\Du\duem.py %*
i.e. it points to the location to which you placed the .exe file. Hopefully then, typing duem
at a DOS prompt will work: Open a DOS window using cmd
, test by typing duem --version
or duem --help
.
Old code version 1.4.1 zip file still available, is in Python 2.7. Works the same as this.
Decent documentation at www.twentypede.com/leg4 and the sha256 sums are viewable there too.
Shaheen Tonse
This is simple software, <300 lines, only imports sys, os, optparse and glob. It is free and distributed without any warranty whatsoever. Apache License 2.0 applies, please read, (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) especially if you plan to re-distribute.