little script which lists sizes of all installed packages

pholie · 2006-04-26 09:42:04

I needed to find out how much disk space do my installed packages use so I could uninstall those which take a lot of space but in fact I don't need them anymore. The shell script just parses pacman's output thus it is relatively slow. I may add functions like sorting by size or displaying sizes in MiB instead of Bytes.

for package in `pacman -Q|awk '{ print $1}'`; do pacman -Qi $package|grep -e Name -e Size|awk '{print $3}'|awk '{getline s; print $0 " " s;}'; done

The output format is very simple:

a2ps 2650067
a52dec 126230
abiword 11195890
acl 314972
acpid 71548
alsa-lib 1569288

Maybe completely rewriting it to directly parse 'desc' files in /var/lib/pacman/local would be better, I'll consider using C or python instead.

Suggestions?

FUBAR · 2006-04-26 10:41:41

Ooooh, sounds (and looks) neat. Although there might be discrepancies between the size reported in the pacman database and the actual size. Not sure about that, though.

phrakture · 2006-04-26 19:42:28

You could probably speed things up a tad by using 'cut' instead of 'awk'

postlogic · 2006-04-27 07:00:55

And perhaps make it display in kb? Although that's a simple matter.

I'd like to see the total size, too :-)

kozaki · 2006-07-23 10:02:31

pholie wrote:

Great, your script is much faster than mine . I knew I had to do this by reading desc files directly but I did not find enough time to do it.

+1

Would having pacsize sorting by size be feasable ?

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#1 2006-04-26 09:42:04

little script which lists sizes of all installed packages

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Re: little script which lists sizes of all installed packages

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Re: little script which lists sizes of all installed packages

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Re: little script which lists sizes of all installed packages

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Re: little script which lists sizes of all installed packages

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