Bash script to find big directories (>1GB).

• realpath

  • Ubuntu

    apt-get install realpath
    

  • macOS

    brew install coreutils
    

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/miguelmota/bigdirs/master/bigdirs.sh
chmod +x bigdirs.sh
sudo mv bigdirs.sh /usr/local/bin/bigdirs

$ bigdirs [flags] {path}

Standard example

$ bigdirs ~/

Verbose example

$ bigdirs -v ~/

Verbose and exhaustive example (shows all big directories recursively)

$ bigdirs -v -e ~/

• Q: I'm getting a Permission denied error!

  • A: Try running as root user with sudo to scan permission restricted directories.

MIT