ncdu Command Examples

Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. More information: https://manned.org/ncdu.

• Analyze the current working directory:

ncdu

• Colorize output:

ncdu --color {{dark|off}}

• Analyze a given directory:

ncdu {{path/to/directory}}

• Save results to a file:

ncdu -o {{path/to/file}}

• Exclude files that match a pattern, argument can be given multiple times to add more patterns:

ncdu --exclude '{{*.txt}}'