whalespotter 0.1.1

Find Big and Fat Files and Folders
whalespotter-0.1.1 is not a library.

whalespotter is

  • a convenient application to fast locate fat files and folders
  • a demonstration of how to use channels to parallelize computations and never block the UI
  • a demonstration of a few Termimad widgets

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Installation

The simplest solution is to execute

cargo install whalespotter

If you want to play with the code, you'll probably fetch the repository. From there you can do

cargo build --release

and the executable will be in target/release.

Note that the current version of whalespotter doesn't run on windows (due to some additional code to deduplicate inodes).

Usage

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