dust

The tool provides a compact, visual summary of disk usage for a given directory tree, displaying the largest subdirectories and files as colored bars proportional to their size. It automatically selects a number of entries that fits the terminal height, recurses to highlight deeper large items, and uses shading to indicate hierarchy without requiring explicit depth or human flags. Users can adjust the output with options such as limiting the number of shown items, toggling between apparent and actual size, filtering by filesystem, and controlling color or bar placement.

It is intended for anyone who needs a quick, intuitive view of where space is consumed on a system—developers, system administrators, or casual users—without having to pipe the output of traditional disk‑usage commands through additional sorting or paging utilities. The command‑line interface works on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and can be installed via common package managers or by downloading a pre‑built binary. The program is written in Rust and is marked as stable.