file-sniffer

If you do a significant amount of programming, you'll probably end up with build artifacts scattered about. sniff is a tool to help you find those artifacts. It's especially useful when you're writing build systems, because you can make sure your clean command gets everything.

Anecdotally, I found around 2GB of junk with this tool.

Installation

Binary install

The easiest way to install for Linux or Windows is to download a binary from the releases page.

Cargo

If your platform doesn't have binaries, get cargo. Then:

bash $ cargo install file-sniffer

If you want the absolute latest version:

bash $ cargo install --git https://github.com/vmchale/file-sniffer

Make sure you are on nightly; if in doubt run

bash rustup run nightly cargo install file-sniffer

Use

Search current directory for directories with build artifacts:

bash $ sniff ar

Look in $DIR for build artifacts and sort by size:

bash $ sniff ar $DIR --sort

Look for artifacts or directories containing artifacts that occupy more than 1GB of disk space:

bash $ sniff ar -t1G

Accessibility

To turn off colorized output:

bash export CLICOLOR=0

Features

• [x] find "likely build artifact" directories
  • [x] use .gitignore/path to make decision
• [ ] match speed of gnu utils on traversals
  • [x] faster when finding artifacts
  • [x] faster with excludes
• [x] colorized output
• [x] sort results by size

Languages Supported

The intent is to support basically anything, so if your DOC is not on the list, feel free to open a PR or start an issue.

• [x] Haskell (incl. GHCJS)
• [x] rust
• [x] julia
• [x] python
• [x] Elm
• [x] nim
• [x] Vimscript
• [x] Idris
• [ ] FORTRAN