fr 1.38

A command-line tool to print free resources in delicious flavors.

fr is a command-line tool to print free resources in delicious flavors. fr is to free as htop is to top.

It was written because of unhappiness with the bare-bones, hard-to-read free command. I wanted something a bit more… graphical. Instead of this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4045216    2159764    1885452          0     192404     942944
-/+ buffers/cache:    1024416    3020800
Swap:            0          0          0

You’ll see something like this:

Free Resources in Blocks of 1 Megabyte (1,000,000 bytes)

DEVICE   VOLUME    CAPACITY       USED       FREE                 MOUNT CACHE
⌁ RAM                 4,142      1,421      1,461  ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉░░░░░░▏       1,261
▪ SWAP                    0

▪ sda1   Ubuntu      18,617      7,000     10,671  ▉▉▉▉░░░░░░░░░▏ /
▪ sda5   Data        88,107     85,218      2,889  ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉░▏ /media/Data
◗ sr0    PREDATOR    45,206     45,206          0  ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▏ /media/PREDATOR

… in fruity colors. Yes, colors can be turned off, units chosen, etc. fr has been tested on Ubuntu (1.2X on Precise-Trusty, 1.3X Zesty), CentOS 6, Windows (XP, 7), and Mac OS X (10.9.x) so far. It runs only under Python 2.X at this time.

Install

You’ll need pip, but not virtualenv.

Linux

Need pip? On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

For Red Hat: s/apt-get/yum/. Or follow the manual instructions.

Next, run this:

sudo pip install fr

If you’d like the development version instead:

sudo pip install https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/fr/get/default.zip

As Udisks is not installed by default on Precise+ Server (and possibly others), it can be installed if you’d like to print volume labels:

sudo apt-get install udisks2

use udisks before Wily.

Windows

After eight years this script finally supports Windows, though support is experimental. ;)

Need pip? Instructions for installing on Windows. Put "%ProgramFiles%\PythonXX\Scripts" in your PATH.

Next, run these as Admin:

pip install colorama        # want color?
pip install fr[win]         # installs necessary winstats

I’ve given up on Unicode icons (for now) on the Windows console and went back to cp437 for that old-timey DOS feel. Perhaps it should print out “conventional/high” memory too.

Mac OS X

Yes, it supports that too, though support is experimental:

sudo pip install -U fr

And off you go.

Use

Run it ;)

fr

And of course there are a number of options:

fr -h

Note: Output will be in a compact format unless the width of the console is at least 90 characters. Give it more and it will expand to fill available space.

License

Licensed under the GPL, version 3+.

Release Notes

• 1.38 - enh: Linux - warn when dbus module not found.

• 1.37 - enh: Support NO_COLOR environment variable.

• 1.36 - enh: Don’t show loop devices (snaps) or /boot/efi by default on linux.

• 1.35 - fix: One more try. ;)

• 1.34 - fix: wide unicode chars breaking alignment, new narrow chars.

  (Broke recently, related to ambiguous width characters.)

• 1.33 - fix: warning icon under linux console.

• 1.32 - fix: udisk1 compatibility, improve udisks missing warning,

• 1.31 - fix: usb drive detection, icon

• 1.30 - enh: Linux: Supports and prefers Udisks2

• 1.24 - fix: extra linefeed on some systems.

• 1.23 - fix: swap cache colors

• 1.22 - fix: swap colors

• 1.21 - add: -l local flag to skip remote filesystems.

• 1.20 - fix: pipeline UnicodeEncodeError.

• 1.19 - fix: don’t print ansi reset at end of bar when color off.

• 1.18 - fix: swap bar should be match bold setting.

• 1.17 - Windows: fix crash on XP, crash on ctypes+colorama

• 1.16 - Posix: don’t install fr.cmd.

• 1.15 - Darwin: fix widelayout (term size), mount point.

• 1.14 - Fix: cache colors differed on 256 colors.

• 1.12 - Darwin: fix subprocess call.

• 1.11 - Darwin: support TERM=xterm.

• 1.10 - Now supports Mac OS X (aka “Darwin”)

• 1.01 - Handle negative swap size on WinXP, swap numbers unreliable. :/