Tar Space Usage

Taru processes a tar listing to display the cumulative size of files stored in individual directories. Its output and options are similar to the Unix disk usage du(1) command.

Installation

Using Pip

pip install taru

Manual

git clone https://github.com/dspinellis/taru
cd taru
python setup.py install

Usage

Examples

Output the five largest entries

$ tar tzvf ORCID_2022_10_summaries-000.tar.gz | taru -h | head -5
425793331       ORCID_2022_10_summaries
423597236       ORCID_2022_10_summaries/000
1181208 ORCID_2022_10_summaries/897
759861  ORCID_2022_10_summaries/013
250719  ORCID_2022_10_summaries/004

Output the sum all file sizes in human-readable form

$ tar tzvf ORCID_2022_10_summaries-000.tar.gz | taru -sh
406.1MiB        total

Available command-line options

$ taru --help

usage: taru [-0] [-a] [-c] [-h] [-i] [-S] [-s] [-?]

taru usage

optional arguments:
  -0, --null            End output lines with a null character rather than
                        newline
  -a, --all             Output all files, not just directories
  -c, --total           Output a grand total
  -h, --human-readable  Output sizes in human-readable format using powers of
                        1024
  -i, --si              Output sizes in human-readable format using powers of
                        1000
  -S, --separate-dirs   Do not include size of subdirectories
  -s, --summarize       Output only the total size of all files
  -?, --help            Display this help message