List all installed packages by size

Kooothor · 2011-01-19 23:04:35

Hello,

Here is how to list you installed packages by size (can be useful if you need space)

$ pacman -Qi | egrep '^(Name|Installed)' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr '\nK' ' \n' | sort -nrk 2 | less

Props to Abazigal from archfr
Idea from http://www.planet-libre.org/#post8360

Last edited by Kooothor (2011-01-19 23:05:21)

karol · 2011-01-19 23:37:59

If you have expac you can

expac "%n %m" -l'\n' -Q $(pacman -Qq) | sort -rhk 2 | less

And there's Allan's bigpkg

Edit: typo.

Last edited by karol (2011-01-22 02:08:12)

Kooothor · 2011-01-21 17:39:53

Oh, cool !

Awebb · 2011-01-21 18:43:11

I usually look into the pacman cache folder. I know, DL size and installed size differ from package to package, but it's a rough approximation.

However, this is quite elegant, so thanks a lot.

harryNID · 2011-01-21 19:32:28

In gawk: (To the awk guru's out there, go gentle as I just start learning awk!)

Print low to high:

pacman -Qi | gawk '/^Name/ { x = $3 }; /^Installed Size/ { sub(/Installed Size  *:/, ""); print x":" $0 }' | sort -k2,3n

Print high to low:

pacman -Qi | gawk '/^Name/ { x = $3 }; /^Installed Size/ { sub(/Installed Size  *:/, ""); print x":" $0 }' | sort -k2,3nr

Print 10 largest programs: (high to low)

 pacman -Qi | gawk '/^Name/ { x = $3 }; /^Installed Size/ { sub(/Installed Size  *:/, ""); print x":" $0 }' | sort -k2,3rn | head -n10 | gawk 'BEGIN { print "\n""These are your 10 largest programs:""\n" }; { print }'

In sed: (I can't find this now to attribute the author but it used to be posted somewhere in the wiki)

alias package_size="LANG=C pacman -Qi | sed -n '/^Name[^:]*: \(.*\)/{s//\1 /;x};/^Installed[^:]*: \(.*\)/{s//\1/;H;x;s/\n//;p}' | sort -nk2"

As I said above, I'm learning awk so I thought this might be a good exercise!

Ashren · 2011-01-21 19:48:52

Another awk (show in Mbs) entry:

pacman -Qi | awk 'BEGIN{sort="sort -k2 -n"} /Name/ {name=$3} /Size/ {size=$4/1024;print name":",size,"Mb"|sort}'

Edit: size=0 was not needed.

Last edited by Ashren (2011-01-21 19:55:36)

harryNID · 2011-01-21 19:58:58

Very cool, Ashren!

I knew all of it could probably be done in awk but I'm not quite there yet so thank you for the example!!

Ashren · 2011-01-21 20:13:42

You're welcome harryNID. Although, the pacman -Qi command still needs to be integrated. A challenge?

falconindy · 2011-01-22 01:05:37

karol wrote:

If you have expac you can
expac "%n %m" -l'\n' -Q $(pacman -Qq) | sort -rkh 2 | less
And there's Allan's bigpkg

No need to call pacman.

expac -s "%-30n %m" | sort -rhk 2 | less

karol · 2011-01-22 01:56:25

falconindy wrote:

karol wrote:
If you have expac you can
expac "%n %m" -l'\n' -Q $(pacman -Qq) | sort -rkh 2 | less
And there's Allan's bigpkg
No need to call pacman.
expac -s "%-30n %m" | sort -rhk 2 | less

[karol@black ~]$ expac -s "%-30n %m" | sort -rhk 2 | less
error: bad token in format string: %-

falconindy · 2011-01-22 02:06:00

update expac.

karol · 2011-01-22 02:14:48

falconindy wrote:

update expac.

OK, now it does work :-)

Ashren · 2011-01-23 11:42:28

Ashren wrote:

You're welcome harryNID. Although, the pacman -Qi command still needs to be integrated. A challenge?

All inclosed within an awk command (and with prettier printing):

awk 'BEGIN{while (("pacman -Qi" |getline) > 0){ if ($0 ~ /Name/) {name=$3};{if ($0 ~ /Size/) {size=$4/1024;print name": ",size,"Mb"|"sort -k2 -n|column -t"}}}}'

I tend to obsess about things like this - now I can get on with my day.

Using printf instead of column:

awk 'BEGIN{while (("pacman -Qi" |getline) > 0){ if ($0 ~ /Name/) {name=$3};{if ($0 ~ /Size/) {size=$4/1024;printf "%-25s %d Mb\n", name, size|"sort -k2 -n"}}}}'

Last edited by Ashren (2011-01-23 12:32:50)

Shahab · 2015-12-13 10:26:36

Kooothor wrote:

Hello,
Here is how to list you installed packages by size (can be useful if you need space)
$ pacman -Qi | egrep '^(Name|Installed)' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr '\nK' ' \n' | sort -nrk 2 | less 
Props to Abazigal from archfr
Idea from http://www.planet-libre.org/#post8360

Thanks for spreading the idea, I still find this useful. However, tr '\nK' ' \n' does not work for me. I have replaced it with paste - - :

$ pacman -Qi | egrep '^(Name|Installed)' | cut -f2 -d':' | paste - - | column -t | sort -nrk 2 | grep MiB | less

also inspired from commandlinefu

WorMzy · 2015-12-13 12:58:15

I think it's about time to put this thread to rest.

Closing.

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