Dust

dust Plugin

A more intuitive version of du in rust. Display disk usage with a tree view, showing which directories are taking up space.

Commands

Disk Analysis

• dust disk analyze — Analyze disk usage with tree view

Utility

• dust _ _ — Passthrough to dust CLI

Usage Examples

• "Analyze disk usage"
• "Find large directories"
• "Visual disk usage tree"
• "du alternative with bars"

Installation

brew install dust

Or via Cargo:

cargo install du-dust

Examples

# Analyze current directory
dust disk analyze

# Analyze specific directory
dust disk analyze /var/log

# Limit depth
dust disk analyze ~ --depth 2

# Without percentage bars
dust disk analyze --no-percent-bars

# Reverse sort
dust disk analyze --reverse

# Any dust command with passthrough
dust _ _ ~/Downloads
dust _ _ --depth 3 /tmp
dust _ _ --no-percent-bars --reverse

Key Features

• Tree - Visual tree view
• Bars - Percentage bars
• Colors - Color-coded sizes
• Depth - Configurable depth
• Sort - Size sorting
• Reverse - Reverse sort
• Multi-path - Multiple paths
• Ignore - Ignore patterns
• Fast - Rust performance
• Intuitive - Easy to read

Notes

• Color-coded by size
• Visual percentage bars
• Great for disk cleanup
• Faster than du for many cases