# Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
package "adu"
-version "0.0.1"
-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 "uid" u
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"user id(s) to take into account"
-string typestr="uid_spec"
-optional
-multiple
-details="
- An uid specifier may be a single number, or a range of uids.
- Example:
-
- --uid 42 # only consider uid 42
- --uid 42- # only consider uids greater or equal than 42
- --uid 23-42 # only consider uids between 23 and 42, inclusively.
-
- This option may be given multiple times. An uid is taken into
- account if it satisfies at least one --uid option.
-"
-
-
-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. 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.
"
-##############################
-section "Options for --select"
-##############################
-
-option "limit" L
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"Limit output"
-int typestr="num"
-default="-1"
+option "hash-table-bits" -
+#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+"specify the size of the uid hash table"
+int typestr="num"
+dependon="create"
+default="10"
optional
-dependon="select"
details="
- Only print num lines of output. If negative (the default),
- print all lines.
+ Use a hash table of size 2^num for the uid entries. If more than
+ 2^num different uids own at least one regular file under base-dir,
+ the command fails. Increase this value if you have more than 1024
+ users. Decreasing the value causes adu to use slightly less memory.
"
-option "size_unit" -
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"select output format for sizes"
-enum typestr="format"
-values="h","b","k","m","g","t"
-default="h"
-optional
-details="
- Print sizes in the given unit: human-readable, bytes,
- kilobytes (2^10), megabytes (2^20), gigabytes (2^30), terabytes
- (2^40). The default is \"h\", i.e. human-readable.
-"
+##############################
+section "Options for --select"
+##############################
-option "count_unit" -
-#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"select output format for counted values"
-enum typestr="format"
-values="h","n","k","m","g","t"
-default="h"
+option "select-options" s
+#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+"Options for select mode"
+string typestr="<options>"
optional
+dependon="select"
details="
- Print the number of files/directories in the given unit:
- human-readable, number, number/10^3, number/10^6, number/10^12,
- number/10^15. The default is to print numbers in human-readable
- format.
+ 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.
"
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