Re: du enhancement

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-10-20 15:18, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 20/10/2023 00:22, Rusty Duplessis wrote:
> > Would be nice to have an option to append a / to the end of directory 
> > names, so that you can distinguish between a file and directory when 
> > using -a.  Something like -F option to ls.
>
> It's a good suggestion.
>
> I generally only use du with single files / dirs,
> or otherwise I use a wrapper that makes dirs obvious (though coloring):
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop
>
> I.e. the default output from du -a is hard to parse.

How about making the output of du(1) colored the same way as it 
currently is in ls(1)?  I'd be willing to work on implementing that.