A pragmatic way to view your file sizes. Think of it as an easier-to-use and more intuitive alternative to the du coreutil.

This project is still under development and might contain bugs and crappy code! Please open issues/PRs if you find something janky.

Let's take a look at how we can use this utility in a directory.

• to find the size of the current directory (excluding gitignored and hidden files/files in gitignored or hidden directories)

sz . 

this will be the output:

 file/dir name | size    
---------------+---------
 sz            | 41.52KB 


10 files parsed

• if you want to list the size of each file along with the file path:

sz . -l

• you can include gitignored and hidden flags by including the -g and -i flag respectively.

sz . -l -i -g

• if you run this command in a directory with more than 50 files it will only show the first 20. you can either provide the number of items you want to list with the -n argument or include the -L flag to list all the items.

sz . -l -i -g -n 30 # show me the first 30 items

sz . -l -i -g -L # show me all the files

• you can also sort the items based on size using the -d and -a flags.

sz . -l -d -n 5 # returns the 5 largest files in the current directory

sz . -l -a -n 6 # returns the 6 smallest files in the current directory

• to view only the root directories in a path, use the -D flag. this flag will only show directories with the parent same as the path provided. it will not list any files.

sz ~/Documents/rl -l -D

• you can recursively view all the directories in a path by providing the -R flag.

sz ~/Documents/rl -l -D -R

note that you can use all the options previously mentioned with the -D flag too.

# shows the 3 largest directories in this path (including gitignored or hidden)
sz ~/Documents/rl -l -D -R -i -g -d -n 3 

• use the -e flag to exclude directories

sz ~/Documents/rl -l -D -R -d -e ~/Documents/rl/public/ ~/Documents/rl/assets/

warning: this arg doesn't really work with the -i or -g

• use the -s flag to show the total line count of all the files parsed. Run this only with UTF-8 encoded files, obviously.

sz ./src -l -s

The options are pretty simple yet powerful:

Options:
  -d, --sort-files-desc                 Sort items by size in descending order
  -a, --sort-files-asc                  Sort items by size in ascending order
  -i, --include-hidden                  Include hidden files
  -l, --list-files                      List the files in the directory
  -L, --list-all                        List all files in the directory even if directory count exceeds 50
  -g, --include-gitignored              Include gitignored files
  -e, --exclude-dirs <EXCLUDE_DIRS>...  Directories to exclude
  -n, --num-files <NUM_FILES>           Number of files to list
  -D, --only-dirs                       Show only directories
  -R, --recursive-dirs                  Recursively list directories (Only to be used with -D flag)
  -s, --show-lines                      Show total line count for items
  -h, --help                            Print help

Run sz -h to view this help message.