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Small `du' reformatter :-)

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Jan 20 18:11:42 EST 2000 
Hi, people.

I knew I wrote a small Python tool to reformat `du' output, but I lost it
for a while, and unexpectedly stumbled on it today, looking for something
unrelated.  Here it is.  So if I loose it again, I'll ask you! :-)

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#!/usr/bin/python
# Produce directory hierarchy with sizes, well sorted and indented.
# Copyright ? 1996, 1999 Progiciels Bourbeau-Pinard inc.
# Fran?ois Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca>, 1996.

# Idea from Pierre Rioux <riouxp at bch.umontreal.ca>, 1996-07-12.

import os, re, string, sys

def main(*arguments):
    # Get data properly sorted.
    items = map(presort,
                os.popen('du %s' % string.join(arguments)).readlines())
    items.sort()
    items = map(postsort, items)
    # Erase unneeded fragments of vertical lines.
    clean(items)
    items.reverse()
    clean(items)
    items.reverse()
    # Erase leftmost white columns.
    skip = 0
    split, size = items[0]
    while not split[skip]:
        skip = skip + 1
    # Produce display.
    for split, size in items:
        sys.stdout.write('%7s ' % size)
        for item in split[skip:-1]:
            if item:
                sys.stdout.write('|  ')
            else:
                sys.stdout.write('   ')
        sys.stdout.write('\\_ %s' % split[-1])

def presort(line):
    size, path = string.split(line, '\t')
    return path, size

def postsort((path, size)):
    return string.split(path, '/'), size

def clean(items):
    # The basename is always written.  Intermediate directories
    # normally print as `|', yet None is used to inhibit the line.
    draw = []
    for split, size in items:
        while len(draw) > len(split) - 1:
            draw.pop()
        while len(draw) < len(split) - 1:
            draw.append(0)
        draw.append(1)
        for counter in range(len(split) - 1):
            if not draw[counter]:
                split[counter] = None

if __name__ == '__main__':
    apply(main, sys.argv[1:])
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