Provided by: qdirstat_1.8.1-1_amd64 
NAME
QDirStat - Qt-based directory statistics
DESCRIPTION
QDirStat is a graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you
to clean it up.
USAGE
qdirstat [OPTION]... [<directory-name>]
qdirstat --cache|-c <cache-file-name>
qdirstat pkg:/<pkg-spec>
qdirstat unpkg:/<dir>
OPTIONS
-h|--help
Show a summary of command line options on stdout. That information might be more
up-to-date than this man page.
-s|--slow-update
Slow down display updates during directory reading. This is useful when running
QDirStat over a remote X11 connection.
The exact update interval is specified in the SlowUpdateMillisec parameter in the
[DirectoryTree] section of the configuration file. The default is 3000 milliseconds
(3 seconds).
-d|--dont-ask
Don't prompt for a directory to read upon program start even if no directory was
specified on the command line.
-c|--cache <cache-file-name>
Read the content of a directory tree from a cache file that was generated by
QDirStat's "Write to Cache File" option or by the qdirstat-cache-writer script.
A file .qdirstat.cache.gz in the directory that it describes is automatically
picked up and used: A cache file /data/archive/foo/.qdirstat.cache.gz with the
content of /data/archive/foo is used automatically when found while reading a
directory tree containing it.
NORMAL OPERATION
You start the program without any parameters; then it will open a directory selection box
to let you choose an existing directory. Alternatively, you can specify the path of an
existing directory as a command line parameter.
The program will then start reading that directory tree, i.e. it will recursively traverse
that directory tree and read information for each directory and its subdirectories.
The result is displayed in a tree view where you can open and close branches. The tree
view displays information such as the accumulated size of each subtree, the number of
items, the number of files, the latest modification time ("mtime") in that subtree, and
some more. You can sort the tree by each of those columns.
You can select one or more items in the tree view to get more detailed information or to
start "cleanup actions": Move to trash, remove immediately (caution!), create a gzipped
tarball from a directory, "make clean", open a file manager window with that directory or
start a shell there - and more. Use the context menu (right mouse button) or the "Clean
Up" menu in the menu bar (you can "tear off" that menu so it remains open).
There are three predefined column layouts L1, L2, L3 where you can switch what columns are
displayed and whether or not to display the details panel at the right.
Right-click on a column header to show or hide individual columns or to switch between
automatic column width and a user-defined width (drag the column divider in the header).
You can rearrange the order of columns with drag and drop (but the "Name" column will
always remain fixed at the very left side).
THE TREEMAP
As a secondary view, there is a "treemap" with colored rectangles ("tiles"). The area of
each of those tiles corresponds to its size; the larger a tile, the larger the item. So
you can spot a large file buried deep down in the directory hierarchy easily.
The color of each tile corresponds to its type ("MIME category"). There are a number of
predefined categories such as images (photos etc.), videos, music etc.; they can be
configured in the configuration dialog (menu "Edit" -> "Configure QDirStat").
PKG URLS / PACKAGES VIEW
Specifying a pkg:/ URL at the command line starts the packages view that groups files by
the software package they belong to.
The package specification in the pkg:/ URL is case insensitive.
Some heuristics are used to determine what mode to use: The default is "starts with", but
if the search pattern contains typical regexp special characters, it interprets the
pattern as a regular expression.
If it detects just "*" (not ".*") or "?", it uses wildcard mode.
If the first character is "=", it uses exact matching.
qdirstat pkg:/chrom
This shows all packages starting with "chrom" or "Chrom" or "CHROM".
qdirstat pkg:/=emacs
This shows only package "emacs", not "emacs25" or any other one starting with
"emacs".
qdirstat "pkg:/*gtk*"
This shows all packages that have "gtk" somewhere in their name.
Notice that you have to protect the "*" wildcards from the shell by escaping them
with quotes.
qdirstat "pkg:/.*qt[45].*"
This shows all Qt4 or Qt5 packages.
qdirstat "pkg:/(firefox|mozilla|chrome|chromium|opera)"
This shows all the well-known browsers on the system. Notice that regular
expressions use a partial match, so use the "^" and "$" anchors when appropriate.
UNPKG URLS / UNPACKAGED FILES VIEW
Specifying an unpkg:/ URL at the command line starts the "unpackaged files" view: This
reads the specified directory and ignores files that are owned by an installed software
package.
Some well-known directories that are known to contain only unpackaged files are excluded
by default, and some file types are ignored by default:
/home user home directories
/root home directory of the root user
/tmp directory for temporary files
/var variable data for all kinds of software
/usr/lib/sysimage/rpm RPM database
/usr/local locally installed software
*.pyc compiled Python files
This list can be modified when starting the unpackaged files view from the menu. Starting
the view from the command line uses the same settings that were used last time when using
the menu.
qdirstat unpkg:/
This shows the unpackaged files of the complete root filesystem.
qdirstat unpkg:/usr/share
This shows the unpackaged files of /usr/share.
FILES
~/.config/QDirStat/QDirStat-cleanup.conf cleanup actions configuration
~/.config/QDirStat/QDirStat-exclude.conf exclude rules configuration
~/.config/QDirStat/QDirStat-mime.conf MIME categories configuration
~/.config/QDirStat/QDirStat.conf general configuration
/tmp/qdirstat-$USER/qdirstat.log current / last log file
/tmp/qdirstat-$USER/qdirstat-*.old previous log files
**/.qdirstat.cache.gz auto-used cache file
It is safe to delete any or all of the configuration files; the next program start will
restore them with default settings.
The configuration files can safely be edited while QDirStat is not running. Many
parameters can be accessed via GUI, but some (the more arcane ones) can only be changed by
editing a configuration file manually.
PROJECT HOME PAGE
https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
SEE ALSO
https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat/tree/master/doc
and don't forget the "Help" menu!
BUGS
See the issue tracker at the project repository:
https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat/issues
AUTHORS
QDirStat was written by Stefan Hundhammer <Stefan.Hundhammer@gmx.de> based on the original
KDE 3 KDirStat (also by Stefan Hundhammer). While a number of people contributed small
patches and fixes, the project is largely a one-man-show.
This manual page was written by Stefan Hundhammer <Stefan.Hundhammer@gmx.de> based on the
initial one written for QDirStat by Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation.
July 2019 QDirStat(1)