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muesli / duf

duf

Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative

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10Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
15.4KGitHub stars
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Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative

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didnt see my favorite one in "Similar projects": https://github.com/muesli/duf

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-21 09:53:53 UTC to 2025-10-20 10:20:20 UTC.

01232020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Not sure these are really popular, but I cannot resist advertising a few utilities written in Go that I regularly use in my daily workflow: - gdu: a NCDU clone, much faster on SSD mounts [1] - duf: a `df` clone with a nicer interface [2] - massren: a `vidir` clone (simpler to use but with fewer options) [3] - gotop: a `top` clone [4] - micro: a nice TUI editor [5] Building this kind of tools in Go makes sense, as the executables are statically compiled and are thus easy to install on remote servers. [1]: https://github.com/dundee/gdu [2]: https://github.com/muesli/duf [3]: https://github.com/laurent22/massren [4]: https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop [5]: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
In Go: What we got right, what we got wrong
tl;dr: - zsh+ohmyzsh - fdfind github.com/sharkdp/fd - duf github.com/muesli/duf "better df" - dust github.com/bootandy/dust "more intuitive du" - tldr github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client tldr client in python - ripgrep github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep This constitutes the "great" tools, there are more that are "good"
In The Most Useful Command Line Tools (2023 Edition)

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