dust -n 20

Category: Monitoring & Observability

dust -n 20

Limit dust output to the top 20 entries

Restricts the listing to the 20 largest entries, trimming the long tail of small directories. Useful when a scan produces hundreds of rows. The order still reflects size unless you add -r to reverse it.
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