Quick Free Way to find out where you Disk Space is being used.

you can do the same search for files/directory sizes for free with a simple unix command.
du -k ~ | sort -n
this does your home drive
sudo du -k / | sort -n
this does the entire hdd
du -ak ~ | sort -n
this does your home drive with files and directories
sudo -ak / | sort -n
this does your hdd files and directories
you can add a > <filename> so that you can search the output example.
du -k ~ | sort -n > directory_inventory.txt
i have been seeing a lot of need for a command like this so that users know what directories are taking up a lot of space on there hard disk drive.

nice, but i don't want to clutter up my drive with applications when they are built in, and if you really need a gui just use xcode and the above commands to get your gui.

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