Dirutils is a collection of utility program for working with directories.
Currently these programs are available:
dirscan- Scans the given directories and prints out the files inside of themdirstats- Shows statistical information about the given directory.dirwatch- Watches for any changes in the given directory.
Run program --help to see a short documentation of program, where program is
the name of the program that you want to invoke.
Homepage: https://dirutils.nongnu.org
Latest and old source release tarballs can be found at https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dirutils/.
If you have downloaded the source release tarball, navigate to the directory first and then run the following commands:
tar -xvf dirutils-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd dirutils-x.y.z/
./configure
make
make install
Replace x.y.z with the version number of dirutils that you've downloaded.
make install might fail if the current user does not have permission to make changes to the system directories. To fix this, run sudo make install. This will give root permissions to make and thus, it will be able to do it's job successfully. This command might ask you for your password.
Then you can run dirstats --version to check if it's working properly. You should see a version number being printed to the screen.
Note that this requires you to have Git installed in your local computer. If not, go to https://git-scm.com/ to download and install Git. You'll also need autoconf and automake to build the package. Go to https://gnu.org/software/autoconf and https://gnu.org/software/automake to download and install them.
To clone the repository, run:
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/dirutils.git
This should create a directory dirutils. Run cd dirutils to go inside of the directory.
The repository of dirutils does not come with the build scripts (e.g. configure). To generate those scripts, run:
autoreconf -i
It should create configure, build-aux/ and a few other files.
Then run:
make
make install
Again, make install might fail if the current user does not have permission to make changes to the system directories. You should run sudo make install to fix this.
Dirutils is licensed under GNU General Public License v3+. You should have received a copy with this repository/release. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html.
Dirutils is maintained by Ar Rakin [email protected].