file-sniffer

If you do a significant amount of programming, you'll probably end up with several of gigabytes of artifacts scattered about. sniff is a tool to help you find those artifacts.

Features:

• find "fat" files and directories
• find "likely build artifact" directories
• match speed of gnu utils

Installation

Binary install

The easiest way to install is probably to download a binary from the releases page.

Cargo

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

 $ cargo install file-sniffer

Use

Look for subdirectories/files that consume the most disk space:

 $ sniff sort dir

Look for in the current directory for directories/files that occupy more than 1GB of disk space:

 $ sniff fat --threshhold G

Accessibility

To turn off colorized output:

export CLICOLOR=0