DPIGS(1)

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version 0.88.2ubuntu2 · 8 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 DPIGS(1) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Debian-goodies documentation, this is the dpigs page and it's genuinely one of my faves 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

dpigs — show which installed packages occupy the most space 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dpigs [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, dpigs sorts all your installed packages by size and then just... tells you the biggest ones. no cap. 🫣

by default it shows you the largest 10 packages. want more? want fewer? that's what the -n option is for (go peek at "OPTIONS" below, i got u).

where does it even get this info?? from the dpkg status file, using grep-status(1). iconic teamwork fr fr. 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -n, --lines=N — show the N largest packages on your system. default is 10, that's the vibe.
  • -s, --status=FILE — use FILE instead of the default dpkg status file (which, rn, is /var/lib/dpkg/status). lowkey handy if you've got a different one lying around. 🙈
  • -S, --source — display the largest source packages of the binary packages installed on the system. like, the origin story of your packages. main character energy. ✨
  • -H, --human-readable — display package sizes in human-readable format, like ls -lh or du -h. so instead of a wall of digits you get stuff you can actually read. obsessed. 😭
  • -h, --help — displays some usage info and then dips. that's it, that's the option. 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>

This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>. 💜

Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

fr fr, read the license, it's giving legally binding bestie 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

dpkg(8), grep-status(1)

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