ncdu

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  "desc": "NCurses Disk Usage",
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  "one_liner": "Interactive ncurses disk usage analyzer written in Zig; shows folder sizes and lets you navigate/delete bloat.",
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  "why_use_this": "Much faster than recursive du/find for exploring large filesystems; the TUI lets you drill down, sort, and prune directories without piping to text tools. Single static binary, no Python/Perl overhead. Indispensable for system maintenance and finding rogue log dirs or cache bloat."
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