It is being sorted by the first column, but it also keeps subdirectories with ea...

imiric · on July 11, 2024

Ah, I see, that makes sense.

But still, the second `Videos` directory of 3.7G is a subdirectory of `Music`, so it should appear below it, no? Same for the two `tmp` directories, they're subdirectories of `.local`, so I would expect them to be listed under it. Right now there doesn't seem to be a clear order in either case.

db48x · on July 12, 2024

Subdirectories cannot be larger than the directory that they are within, so they cannot be sorted _below_ their parent. Thus, the tree branches upwards, not downwards. The root is at the bottom, where a tree’s root should be!

Incidentally, dust sorts things the same way but presents it with a nicer tree:

     db48x  ~  1  dust -Db
    2.6G     ┌── saves
    2.6G   ┌─┴ .factorio
    3.4G   │   ┌── Steam
    3.4G   │ ┌─┴ share
    3.4G   ├─┴ .local
    1.8G   │ ┌── EgoSoft
    3.5G   ├─┴ .config
    7.2G   │ ┌── Amadeus (1984) DC (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 5.1 Tigole)
     16G   │ ├── Amadeus.1984.DC.INTERNAL.REPACK.1080p.BluRay.x264-CLASSiC[rarbg]
     23G   ├─┴ video
    1.9G   │   ┌── build
    2.0G   │ ┌─┴ notcurses
    2.2G   │ ├── wezterm
    2.1G   │ │ ┌── master
    2.6G   │ │ │   ┌── tiles
    2.6G   │ │ │ ┌─┴ obj
    4.1G   │ │ ├─┴ missions
    2.6G   │ │ │   ┌── tiles
    2.6G   │ │ │ ┌─┴ obj
    4.1G   │ │ ├─┴ iteminfo
    5.6G   │ │ ├── follower_rules
    8.5G   │ │ │     ┌── pack
    8.6G   │ │ │   ┌─┴ objects
    8.6G   │ │ │ ┌─┴ .git
     10G   │ │ ├─┴ uilist
     26G   │ ├─┴ cataclysm
     33G   ├─┴ src
     72G ┌─┴ .

imiric · on July 12, 2024

Gotcha, thanks for explaining.

Yeah, I guess my confusion was with how the tree is rendered in dut. The pipe rendering of dust makes this clearer.