There are plenty of utilities (GUI, such as filelight and TUI, such as dua as well) for analyzing disk usage by space, but I would like to view my folders based on the count of files, as I’m making backups, and folders with lots of small files (e.g. node_modules) take very long to move around, so I guess that I’d be better of compressing those into a single file before archiving, as it’s already highly unlikely that I’ll need to access them anyway. Thanks for any pointers in advance!

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    9 months ago

    You can use ncdu for this. Launch it with the options --show-itemcount --sort=itemcount

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      9 months ago

      Oh, wow, thank you! I had ncdu installed, but it was an older version, which didn’t yet have this feature. Now that I updated to the newest (Zig based 🎉) release this looks perfect for my needs!