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.TH ncdu 1 "Nov 3, 2011" "ncdu-1.8" "ncdu manual"
=head1 NAME
B<ncdu> - NCurses Disk Usage
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=item -o I<FILE>
Export all necessary information to I<FILE> instead of opening the browser
interface. If I<FILE> is C<->, the data is written to standard output.
interface. If I<FILE> is C<->, the data is written to standard output. See the
examples section below for some handy use cases.
Be warned that the exported data may grow quite large when exporting a
directory with many files. 10.000 files will get you an export in the order of
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=back
=head1 EXAMPLES
To scan and browse the directory you're currently in, all you need is a simple:
ncdu
If you want to scan a full filesystem, your root filesystem, for example, then
you'll want to use C<-x>:
ncdu -x /
Since scanning a large directory may take a while, you can scan a directory and
export the results for later viewing:
ncdu -1xo- / | gzip >export.gz
# ...some time later:
zcat export.gz | ncdu -f-
To export from a cron job, make sure to replace C<-1> with C<-0> to suppress
any unnecessary output.
You can also export a directory and browse it once scanning is done:
ncdu -o- | tee export.file | ./ncdu -f-
The same is possible with gzip compression, but is a bit kludgey:
ncdu -o- | gzip | tee export.gz | gunzip | ./ncdu -f-
To scan a system remotely, but browse through the files locally:
ssh -C user@system ncdu -o- / | ./ncdu -f-
The C<-C> option to ssh enables compression, which will be very useful over
slow links. Remote scanning and local viewing has two major advantages when
compared to running ncdu directly on the remote system: You can browse through
the scanned directory on the local system without any network latency, and ncdu
does not keep the entire directory structure in memory when exporting, so you
won't consume much memory on the remote system.
=head1 HARD LINKS
Every disk usage analysis utility has its own way of (not) counting hard links.
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