This project grew out the frustration of always remembering the different commands for listing out files and their respectively filesizes. I wrote this project using one of favourite programming languages: Swift, to make it easier to list out files and their filesizes.

It was tested on a linux specifically on Kali linux :) but I think it's applicable on any *nix system capable of compiling swift code.

Any *nix system with a working Swift installation

Swift 5.7 or higher.

Change your working directory to the root of the FolderCrawler directory

cd /path/to/FolderCrawler/

Run this command and wait for it to finish, to compile it for release mode

swift build -c release

The compiled program will be stored at /path/to/FolderCrawler/.build/release folder

After compilation, just run it with the -h or --help flag to see the full help information

Example

/path/to/FolderCrawler ~/ --subpaths --ds mb --size 100 --exclude ~/Downloads

This preceding example will list out files in the current user home directory and its subdirectories filtering out only files of 100 megabytes and above while removing files from the downloads folder

• Crawls subdirectories
• Lists out the filesize and its full filepath
• Prints the total number of file crawled
• Skips directory supplied through the --exclude option flag
• Filter out files according to its filesize
• Control+C automatically quit the application

If you have any feedbacks, issues, code improvements of any sort, contributions, or even collaborations on any of your projects.

Please reach out to me at here