growlight VS tkdu

Compare growlight vs tkdu and see what are their differences.

growlight

notcurses block device manager / system installation tool (by dankamongmen)

tkdu

Fork of Jeff Epler's tkdu program to visualize disk usage and `du` output โ€” ARCHIVED as I haven't used this myself in years (by daniel-beck)
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growlight tkdu
2 1
81 15
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4.1 10.0
about 2 months ago over 6 years ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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growlight

Posts with mentions or reviews of growlight. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-07.

tkdu

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  • Ncdu โ€“ NCurses Disk Usage
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2022
    See also tkdu for a graphical version: https://github.com/daniel-beck/tkdu

    It's abandoned but it still works, and I like it because you can pipe the output of du into it, which is useful for visualizing remote systems.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing growlight and tkdu you can also consider the following projects:

athame - Full vim for your shell (bash, zsh, gdb, python, etc)

dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

brick - A declarative Unix terminal UI library written in Haskell

npkill - List any node_modules ๐Ÿ“ฆ dir in your system and how heavy they are. You can then select which ones you want to erase to free up space ๐Ÿงน

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

diskonaut - Terminal disk space navigator ๐Ÿ”ญ

modern-unix - A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

termbox - Library for writing text-based user interfaces

btdu - sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs