# Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
package "adu"
-purpose "advanced disk usage
+purpose "
adu creates a database containing disk usage statistics of a given
directory. It allows to query that database to quickly retrieve
configuration file. As usual, if an option is given both at
the command line and in the configuration file, the command
line option takes precedence.
-
"
option "database-dir" d
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Set loglevel (0-6)"
int typestr="level"
-default="3"
+default="4"
optional
details="
Log messages are always written to stderr while normal output
goes to stdout. Lower values mean more verbose logging.
"
-option "paths" p
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"files to take into account"
-string typestr="pattern"
-optional
-details="
- Shell wildcard pattern that must match a file in order to be
- included in the database in --create mode or in the output
- for --select mode. Only the part of the filename below the
- base directory is matched against the pattern. The default
- is to take all files into account. See fnmatch(3) for details.
-"
-
###############
section "Modes"
###############
defgroup "mode"
#==============
groupdesc="
- adu may be started in one of two possible modes, each of which
- corresponds to a different command line option. Exactly one
- of these options must be given.
+ adu may be started in one of three possible modes, each of
+ which corresponds to a different command line option. Exactly
+ one of these options must be given.
"
required
"Create a new database"
group="mode"
details="
- Traverse the given directory and track disk user on a per-user
- basis. Results are stored in N + 1 osl tables where N is
- the number of uids that own at least one regular file in
- that directory.
+ Traverse the given directory and track disk usage on a
+ per-user basis. Results are stored in N + 1 osl tables where
+ N is the number of uids that own at least one regular file
+ in that directory.
"
groupoption "interactive" I
"activate interactive mode"
group="mode"
details="
- In this mode, adu reads commands from stdin.
+ In this mode, adu reads commands from stdin. This makes it
+ possible to run different select queries without opening the
+ underlying osl database for each query (which is expensive).
+
+ In interactive mode, several subcommands are available, see
+ the end of this document.
"
groupoption "select" S
"query a database previously created with --create"
group="mode"
details="
- This option prints statistics about matching subdirectories to
- stdout. The output depends on the other options, see below.
+ This option prints statistics about matching subdirectories
+ to stdout, to an output file or pipes the output to a given
+ command, depending on the --output option. The output format
+ can be customized by specifying select options, see below.
"
##############################
dependon="create"
optional
details="
- The base directory to be traversed recursively. Must be
- given if --create mode was selected. A warning message is
- printed for each subdirectory that could not be read because
- of insufficient permission. These directories will be ignored
- when computing statistics.
+ The base directory to be traversed recursively. A warning
+ message is printed for each subdirectory that could not be
+ read because of insufficient permissions. These directories
+ will be ignored when computing statistics.
"
option "one-file-system" x
flag off
dependon="create"
details="
- Skip directories that are on different filesystems from the
+ Skip directories that are on different file systems from the
one that the argument being processed is on.
"
option "select-options" s
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"options for select mode"
+"Options for select mode"
string typestr="<options>"
optional
dependon="select"
details="
- Try --select-options \"-h\"
-"
-
-option "print-base-dir" -
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"whether to include the base-dir in the output"
-flag off
-details="
- If this flag is given, all directories printed are prefixed
- with the base directory. The default is to print paths relative
- to the base dir.
-"
-
-option "no-headers" -
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"supress descriptions for listings/tables"
-flag off
-dependon="select"
-details="
- This is mostly useful to feed the output of adu to scripts.
-"
-
-option "global-list" -
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"how to print global directory listings"
-enum typestr="which"
-values="size","file_count","both","none"
-default="both"
-optional
-dependon="select"
-details="
- By default adu prints two global directory listings: The
- first prints the directory names ordered by the sum of the
- sizes of the contained files while the second listing prints
- them sorted by the number of files. This option can be used
- to print only one or neither of these two listings.
+ This option takes a string whose content is another set of
+ options as described below. Select options may be specified
+ either directly in select mode, in which case you have use
+ quotes to prevent the select options from being interpreted
+ as adu options, or via the \"set\" command in interactive mode.
"
-
-option "no-global-summary" -
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"do not print the summary line"
-flag off
-dependon="select"
-
-option "user-list" -
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"how to print per-user directory listings"
-enum typestr="which"
-values="size","file_count","both","none"
-default="both"
-optional
-dependon="select"
-details="
- Similar to the global directory listings mentioned above,
- adu can print two directory listings per user. This option
- controls which of the these should be printed.
-"
-
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