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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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Off topic, but maybe someone will appreciate this. I wrote a function to get the size of contents of a dir a while back. It has a couple of dependencies (
gc
,gwc
at a glance), but should be fairly portable (correct paths for your system). The results are sorted from greatest to least as shown in the screenshot. The purpose was to be able to see directory sizes, which is the topic of this post, so I figured I'd share.Hope it's useful to someone. Free to modify as desired.
ooops you commented similar/same twice. I think this one was a draft. :)
Probably goofed up trying to edit multiple times. Cheers!