gt5 (1)

gt5 [ dir | file | dir file | file file2 ] [options]

gt5 reads the output of du, compares it with a du-log saved by the last run, converts it into HTML and opens the resulting file with a textbrowser.

If files are given on the commandline they are expected to be (optionally gzip/bzip2-compressed) logfiles of du -akx /some/dir. It is up to you to take care that the given directories/files represent the same directory. gt5 will show lots of new files if you don't. ;-)

--cut-at float

Files and directories that are below float percent of their parents are not shown. Default is 0.1, gt5 will accept values between 0.01 and 30.

--debug

Turn on debug. Generate HTML files and do not run browser.

--diff-dir directory

Use directory instead of ~/.gt5-diffs/ to read/store du-logs. This switch is ignored if gt5 is only used with files.

--discard

Do not save the current state, in other words: be able to diff against the old state again. This feature is disabled if gt5 is only used with files.

--help

Display brief help.

--link-files

Also insert links to files to access them from within gt5. This can be very handy if your browser is configured to handle the files MIME-type correctly. This feature is disabled if gt5 is only used with files.

--max-depth int

Do not show anything below a depth of int directories. Default is 5 (also see BUGS below).

--max-lines int

Only consider the int biggest files and directories within the output of du.

--no-diffs

Use this if you are not interested in the history of the directories processed, for example in /tmp.

--save-as file

DEPRECATED, use du -akx or du -ak (see --with-mounts), save the output to a file and run gt5 against one (ore two) of these files later.

--save-state

Force saving current state, overwriting a previous --discard. (Some people seem to have gt5 aliased to 'gt5 --discard'.)

--verbose

Display messages.

--with-mounts

By default gt5 calls du with -akx to ignore mounted filesystems. Use this to inspect mounted partitions too, i.e. call du with -ak

If gawk or a textbrowser are missing and you want to install them into ~/bin (or /usr/local/bin if you have write access there), gt5 comes with the following helpers:

--get-gawk

Download, compile and install a copy of gawk.

--get-links

Download, compile and install a copy of links.

--get-links2

Download, compile and install a copy of links2.

--get-elinks

Download, compile and install a copy of elinks.

It is recommended to use links with gt5. Other textbrowsers are also possible but there are several good reasons why links is given priority over the others:

elinks:

links is much faster on startup/exit

lynx:

does not honor a documents coloring

netrik:

no colors, unfavourable cursor navigation

retawq:

no colors, can't handle <a name>-tags

w3m:

Version 0.5.2 and later are known to work. Older versions experienced unfavourable handling of <a name>-tag, unfavourable cursor navigation and no colors

Only links/links2, elinks and lynx are now considered usable (and also chosen in that order). See ENVIRONMENT/GT5_BROWSER below.

~/.gt5.html

contains a copy of the last run

~/.gt5-diffs/

compressed du-logs are stored here

GT5_BROWSER

force using a (specific) textbrowser

GT5_CHARSET

force using a (specific) charset for HTML header instead of using $LANG

GT5_DEBUG_DIR

Directory where to write gt5.debug* data if --debug option is set.

Directories at depth max-depth are not browsable and so look like files.

Thomas Sattler <gt5 at gmx dot net>

du(1), links(1), elinks(1), lynx(1)