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brew install gdu v5.36.1 MIT

Disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go

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Build dependencies

go

GitHub topics

cli disk-usage filesystem golang hacktoberfest

Links

Caveats

To avoid a conflict with `coreutils`, `gdu` has been installed as `gdu-go`.
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