Print Directory Tree With Sizes
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This command uses find to recursively print all files
and directories under a given directory tree.
The -printf option allows us to print the
%p path and %s size.
We print them in that order so that when we sort, we
sort on the path, and not the file size.
find . -printf "%p %s\n" | sort
This can be helpful if you run some sort of process against a directory, and want to see how the files change.
You can do something like this.
find . -printf "%p %s\n" | sort > /tmp/1.txt
# Run some process.
find . -printf "%p %s\n" | sort > /tmp/2.txt
That will allow you to then compare
git diff 1.txt 2.txt to see which files changed.
I tried implementations using wc, ls,
and xargs, but this seems the simplest in my opinion.