things I learned cleaning up on GNU/Linux

[kaia@brotka.st]

things I learned cleaning up on GNU/Linux

using ncdu to find folders with biggest sizes

17.8 GiB [######################] /tomboys

finding dupes and putting them into file:

fdupes -r save/ | tee dups

after identifying the folders where stuff should not be:

grep 'copy 1' dups | xargs -d '\n' rm

removing all pesky node_modules without that current project where you need it:

find . -type 'd' -name 'node_modules' -not -path './repo/the-important-thing/*' -exec rm -rf {} \;

same for venvs. I hate venvs.

find smol files, indicative of stuff you probably did not make yourself

find . -type f -size -4096c

remove empty folders after cleaning dups

find . -type 'd' -empty -delete

appreciative of any further ideas you have!

[monkee@other.li]

@kaia@brotka.st Uh - did not know of ncdu Running it now
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[Gast]

@monkee @kaia KDE normie using Filelight for pretty circle-trees.

[monkee@other.li]

@Nicro@fedi.absturztau.be @kaia@brotka.st I do like the pretty circles. I'm mainly testing ncdu to be used on servers without GUI.

[Gast]

@monkee @kaia Sorry, I was talking about myself, not trying to roast you. That was worded badly.

[monkee@other.li]

@Nicro@fedi.absturztau.be @kaia@brotka.st No worry. Me too ​:gura_laugh:​ Did not take it as an attack at all. Did not even realize it could be interpreted that way ​:ablobcatsweatsiphard:​