File System Insight Tool 🔗Project page on PyPI
A command-line tool that analyzes and reports on the file system structure and usage on a Linux/Widows system.
File System Insight Tool is a tool for analyzing the file system. It provides detailed information about the content of a specified folder, categorizing files by types and sizes.
- Analysis of folder content and its subfolders.
- Categorize files by types, such as text files, images, video files, etc., based on their extensions.
- Сalculate and display the total size for each file type category.
- Detection of large files with the ability to set a custom size threshold.
- Display files with unusual permissions, such as world-writable or read-only.
- Efficient error handling for scenarios like inaccessible directories
- Change the current working directory using the
cdcommand, and move one level up in the directory hierarchy using the..command.
- Python 3.x
- Access to the file system for analyzing folders
You can install an application directly on your system or in a virtual environment by running the command in CMD.
pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ File-System-Analyzer
🚩After installing, you can use the command file-analyzer in CMD to access the File System Insight Tool.
| Command | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| help | Display command help | help |
| bye | Say goodbye | bye |
| exit | Exit the program | exit |
| analyze | Analyze the contents of a folder. The current folder will be analyzed if the command is called without parameters. | analyze OR analyze D:\Torrents |
| goto | Set the current working folder based on the provided arguments. | goto <folder_path> |
| dirs | Display the current folder path and available subfolders. | dirs |
| large | Display the largest files in the current folder | large |
| setsize | Set the threshold size for identifying large files (in MB) | setsize |
| show | Display the contents of the current folder or the specified folder path. | show OR show <folder_path> |
| cd | Change the current working directory to the specified path. | cd OR cd venv |
| .. | Move up one level in the directory structure | .. |
| stats | Show statistics about file types and sizes | stats |
| permissions | Show files with unusual permissions (World-writable or Read-only) | permissions |
| ignore | Display the list of folders currently marked to be ignored during analysis. Ignored folders will be excluded from the analysis process. | ignore |
| addignore | Add a folder to the list of ignored folders. Folders in this list will not be analyzed in subsequent operations. | addignore |