tkdu VS btop

Compare tkdu vs btop and see what are their differences.

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)

btop

A monitor of resources (by aristocratos)
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tkdu btop
1 102
15 16,763
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10.0 9.2
over 6 years ago 1 day ago
Python C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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tkdu

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

btop

Posts with mentions or reviews of btop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

What are some alternatives?

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

dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

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

bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

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

bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

diskonaut - Terminal disk space navigator ๐Ÿ”ญ

nvtop - GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm

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

glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

btdu - sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs

htop - htop - an interactive process viewer