a convenient application to fast locate fat files and folders (linux & mac)

The simplest solution is to execute

cargo install --locked whalespotter

Pass the desired path:

whalespotter ~

• Hit ctrl-q to quit
• ↑ and ↓ to select and enter to open",
• enter to open the selected directory (in whalespotter) or file (with xdg-open)
• esc to either unselect, or go to parent, or quit
• pageUp and pageDown to scroll
• F5 to refresh

Note: reported sizes take blocks into account, so they may be smaller than the nominal size for the rare sparse files.

Whalespotter is dedicated to one use case: spotting big directories and files. If your goal is to clean your disk, you might be interested in the more recent set of tools I developped. They're described in this blog post.