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This Python 3 script parses parses a list of Org-mode files and generates output similar todu (disk usage) but with lines of Org-mode instead of kilobytes.

The purpose of this script is to use its output as the input forxdu in order to get an interactive graphical visualization:

org-du.py my_org_file.org another_org_file.org | xdu

The script accepts an arbitrary number of files (see your shell for possible length limitations).

GNU/Emacs Org-mode does a great job for outlining (collapsing and expanding). However, when you want to get a brief overview on the amount of content of each heading (e.g., to locate performance optimization possibilities), you need a different tool: org-du

Get it viaGitHub or install it viapip:pip install org-du

org-du.py --help

usage: org-du.py [-h] [-v | --quiet | --version] file [file ...]org-du parses a list of Org-mode files and generatesoutput similar to "du" (disk usage) but with linesof Org-mode instead of kilobytes.positional arguments:  file           a list of file namesoptional arguments:  -h, --help     show this help message and exit  -v, --verbose  --quiet  --version      show program's version number and exitVerbose description: http://Karl-Voit.at/2017/03/27/org-du/:copyright: (c) by Karl Voit <tools@Karl-Voit.at>:license: GPL v3 or any later version:URL: https://github.com/novoid/org-du:bugreports: via github or <tools@Karl-Voit.at>:version: 2017-03-26

If you applyorg-du to thisREADME.org file, you will see following visualization:

org-du.py README.org

You caninteractively navigate through sub-headings using your mouse. Navigate back by clicking on the leftmost item of the visual tree. Exit withq.

Another cool usage scenario is when you invokeorg-du on one host (Windows) and visualizing is done on a different host. This can easily be accomplished by re-directing the output of the script:

Host A (Windows):

org-du.py *.org > org-du-output.txt

Then copying the fileorg-du-output.txt from host A to host B.

Host B (GNU/Linux):

xdu < org-du-output.txt

• <2017-03-26 Sun>: first version on GitHub and pip

• https://github.com/mtekman/org-treeusage.el viareddit
  • an in-place visualization as minor mode

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