file-sniffer

If you do a significant amount of programming, you'll probably end up with build artifacts scattered about. sniff is a tool to help you find those artifacts. It's especially useful when you're writing build systems, because you can make sure your clean command gets everything.

Anecdotally, I found around 2GB of junk with this tool.

Installation

Binary install

The easiest way to install for Linux or Windows is to download a binary from the releases page.

Cargo

If your platform doesn't have binaries, get cargo. Then:

 $ cargo install file-sniffer

If you want the absolute latest version:

 $ cargo install --git https://github.com/vmchale/file-sniffer 

Make sure you are on nightly; if in doubt run

rustup run nightly cargo install file-sniffer

Use

Search current directory for directories with build artifacts:

 $ sniff ar

Look in $DIR for build artifacts and sort by size:

 $ sniff ar $DIR --sort

Look for artifacts or directories containing artifacts that occupy more than 1GB of disk space:

 $ sniff ar -t1G

Accessibility

To turn off colorized output:

export CLICOLOR=0

Features

• find "likely build artifact" directories
  • use .gitignore/path to make decision
• match speed of gnu utils on traversals
  • faster when finding artifacts
  • faster with excludes
• colorized output
• sort results by size

Languages Supported

The intent is to support basically anything, so if your DOC is not on the list, feel free to open a PR or start an issue.

• Haskell (incl. GHCJS)
• rust
• julia
• python
• Elm
• nim
• Vimscript
• Idris
• FORTRAN