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 also a useful aid when you're writing build systems.

sniff can be used to find "fat" directories, but it's also smart. It can look for directories with .a files and .o files, look in directories specified by a .gitignore, and check permissions/PATHs.

Features: - [x] find "fat" files and directories - [x] colorized output - [x] find "likely build artifact" directories - [ ] use .gitignore to make decision - [ ] match speed of gnu utils - [x] beat the crap out of the gnu utils when using regex excludes

Installation

Binary install

The easiest way to install is probably to download a binary from the releases page.

Cargo

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

bash $ cargo install file-sniffer

Use

Search current directory for directories with build artifacts:

bash $ sniff artifacts

Look for subdirectories/files that consume the most disk space:

bash $ sniff sort dir

Look for in the current directory for directories/files that occupy more than 1GB of disk space:

bash $ sniff fat --threshhold G

Accessibility

To turn off colorized output:

bash export CLICOLOR=0

Benchmarks

Replicating the benchmarks

The benchmarks use an ion shell script and bench to perform the actual benchmarks.

I ran them on the built source of cabal, but you can use any directory to benchmark them with:

bash ./ion/bench --path $PATH_TO_DIR