Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer
Leaves is a new text-based disk usage visualizer for terminal environments, inspired by graphical tools like WinDirStat. It uses a treemap layout to represent file sizes, providing a lightweight alternative for users working over remote shell connections.
Why it matters
It offers a practical solution for system administrators and developers who need to manage disk space in environments where graphical interfaces are unavailable.
A text-mode disk usage visualization utility
Leaves is a disk usage analyzer inspired by WinDirStat and QDirStat.
It shows files and directories in a hierarchy of nested rectangles. The area of a rectangle is proportional to its size. A 200 MB file will have twice the size as a sibling with 100 MB. The parent directory will have about 3 times the area of the smaller file.
However, due to the limited resolution of working at a character level, this is a fairly coarse approximation compared to a graphical tool. On the other hand, this will work over remote shell connections when graphical desktop environments are not available or impractical.
You can download a pre-built binary for a select number of platforms from the releases page. If one is not available for your system, follow this section to build from source.
A Rust toolchain is required to build this project.
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