Filesystem

The pyTooling.Filesystem package provides fast and simple access to directory statistics like file sizes, accumulated directory sizes, symlinks, hardlinks, etc.

Features

Scan a directory and its subdirectories for files and create a in-memory filesystem view (directories, files, symbolic links, hard links).
Identify filenames pointing to the same file (a.k.a hard links).
Compute directory sizes by aggregating file sizes.

Missing Features

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Planned Features

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Out of Scope

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By Feature

Danger

Accessing internal fields of a node is strongly not recommended for users, as it might lead to a corrupted tree data structure. If a power-user wants to access these fields, feel free to use them for achieving a higher performance, but you got warned 😉.

Root Reference

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Parent Reference

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Size

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Competing Solutions

Directory Tree

Source: Directory Tree

Todo

FILESYS::Directory-Tree write comparison here.

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folderstats

Source: folderstats

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FILESYS::folderstats write comparison here.

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dutree

Source: dutree

Todo

FILESYS::dutree write comparison here.

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