Sorting installed packages by size

[ip6ix]

I was looking through the various man pages (pkg_* especially pkg_info(1)) trying to find an option where I could get a sorted list by size, of installed packages. pkg_info(1) has the "-s" option to output size, but no sorting.

Clearly some text munging was needed, with the use of pipes. Here's what I came up with:

pkg_info  -a -s | sed '/^$/d' | paste - - | sort -k 5 -n -r \
  | sed 's/^Information for inst://g' | awk '{print $3 "\t\t" $1};' \
  | numfmt --to=si

The first two parts get a list of installed packages plus size, removing empty lines, then I use paste(1) to join adjacent lines, do a reverse numeric sort on the 5th field, remove unneeded stuff, then print lines with fields in "size package" order.

numfmt(1) converts bytes to human-readable form and can be omitted if you don't have GNU coreutils installed, in which case the awk(1) command could be extended to do the conversion.

Pipes are one of the core components of the UNIX philosophy / way-of-doing-things, and one of the main reasons I love the OS family, particularly OpenBSD.

[frcc]

nice

[ibara]

You should consider extending this into something can be made into a port.

[fvgit]

Very nice, @ip6ix!

On a vaguely related note, is there an easy way to find out which ports/packages make use of pledge(2) and unveil(2)?

[jggimi]

Originally Posted by fvgit

Very nice, @ip6ix!

Indeed!

On a vaguely related note, is there an easy way to find out which ports/packages make use of pledge(2) and unveil(2)?

The easiest way I know of is grep(1)ing the port Makefiles.

[fvgit]

Originally Posted by jggimi

Indeed!The easiest way I know of is grep(1)ing the port Makefiles.

I'll give that a try!

I knew I had seen this topic before! For a quick'n'dirty version of package by size sorting head over to solene@'s blog:
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2018-0...ages-size.html

It needs to be said though, that the output from ip6ix's solution is aesthetically far more pleasing.

$ pkg_info -sa | paste - - - - | sort -n -k 5

Total size: 138561651
Information for inst:metaauto-1.0p3             Size: 21875
Information for inst:xsel-1.2.0p2               Size: 35153
Information for inst:quirks-3.124               Size: 36018
Information for inst:xclip-0.13p0               Size: 39741
Information for inst:xkbset-0.5p2               Size: 40172
Information for inst:libpaper-1.1.26            Size: 51956
Information for inst:libusb-compat-0.1.5p0              Size: 57898
(...)

vs.

pkg_info  -a -s | sed '/^$/d' | paste - - | sort -k 5 -n -r \
  | sed 's/^Information for inst://g' | awk '{print $3 "\t\t" $1};' \
  | gnumfmt --to=si

25M     pkglocatedb-1.5
23M     vim-8.1.1048p0-no_x11
21M     coreutils-8.31
10M     libxml-2.9.8p1
9.3M    lcms2-2.9
7.5M    libgphoto-2.5.22
6.2M    p7zip-16.02p5
(...)