https://aggr.aymericbeaumet.com/sources/github.com/rcalixte/ Browse aymeric's, an independent, searchable archive of readable snapshots from followed feeds, preserved in Git with aggr. en Sun, 4 Oct 2026 19:30:36 +0000 aggr https://aggr.aymericbeaumet.com/items/lobste-rs/2026-10-04-ncdu-ncurses-disk-usage-an-updated-fork/ urn:aggr:item:03559b4007aeee5cf0157e383a56daa082940c11 Sun, 4 Oct 2026 19:30:36 +0000 github.com by rcalixte Comments <h2>ncdu-zig</h2> <h2>Description</h2> <p>Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.</p> <p>See the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://dev.yorhel.nl/doc/ncdu2">ncdu 2 release announcement</a> for information about the differences between this Zig implementation (2.x) and the C version (1.x).</p> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li>Zig 0.17</li> <li>Some sort of POSIX-like OS</li> <li>ncurses</li> <li>libzstd</li> </ul> <h2>Install</h2> <p>You can use the Zig build system if you're familiar with that.</p> <p>There's also a handy Makefile that supports the typical targets, e.g.:</p> <pre><code><span class="code-snippet">make sudo make install PREFIX=/usr </span></code></pre> news release zig