Hi Michael, On 2009-10-24 15:45:32(+0200), Michael Brand wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to use the column view for browsing a hierarchical tree with a > summed up property like e. g. the directory sizes (inclusive cluster waste and > subdirectories from `du -sk`) of a directory tree. Just similar (only > unsorted) to the upper left pane of this GUI screenshot of WinDirStat here > http://windirstat.info/images/windirstat.jpg > > Let me make an example how I think to do the same with column view when given > a directory with the two shell outputs > > ---------------------------------------- > $ ls -lR dir_node > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x 2 usr grp 136 Oct 24 12:00 a > drwxr-xr-x 2 usr grp 102 Oct 24 12:00 b > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 9070 Oct 24 13:00 t.txt > > dir_node/a: > total 2400 > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 4535 Oct 24 12:00 x.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 1217312 Oct 24 12:00 y.txt > > dir_node/b: > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 4535 Oct 24 12:00 z.txt > ---------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------- > $ find dir_node -type d -exec du -sk {} \; > 1220 dir_node > 1200 dir_node/a > 8 dir_node/b > ---------------------------------------- > > For this I would like to have `some software' which uses the path to this > directory `dir_node' as input and produces the following output file > > ---------------------------------------- > -*- mode: org; eval: (org-columns) -*- > #+STARTUP: odd hidestars > #+PROPERTY: size > #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %size{+} > > * dir_node > *** a > :PROPERTIES: > :size: 1200 > :END: > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 4535 Oct 24 12:00 x.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 1217312 Oct 24 12:00 y.txt > *** b > :PROPERTIES: > :size: 8 > :END: > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 4535 Oct 24 12:00 z.txt > *** . > :PROPERTIES: > :size: 12 > :END: > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 9070 Oct 24 13:00 t.txt > ---------------------------------------- > > Opening this file in org-mode using column view now is comfortable to browse > and can look e. g. like here > > ---------------------------------------- > ITEM | size | > * dir_node | 1220 | > *** a | 1200 | > :PROPERTIES:... > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 4535 Oct 24 12:00 x.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 1217312 Oct 24 12:00 y.txt > *** b | 8 |... > *** . | 12 |... > ---------------------------------------- > > where all not of interest can be left hidden and one can see easily that > - the directory `a' is by far the largest > - most of the disk usage is caused only by the file dir_node/a/y.txt. > - etc > > I would be able to implement this `some software' in a shell script (if I > would take the necessary time some day) but not within Emacs itself which > would be easier to use and IMHO would not be concerned that much with > portability issues. > > What do you think?
Have you looked at org-fstree? http://repo.or.cz/w/org-fstree.git It generates an org tree for the contents of a directory. It doesn't have an option to include the size or other file attributes as properties as the moment, but I don't think this would be hard to add. Andreas and I have been working on it quite a lot over the last week, I'll see if I can add an option which would do what you want. James -- |-<James TD Smith>-<email/ahktenz...@mohorovi.cc>-| _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
