Could you add an option to only display total?

[ModProg]

I'm basically looking for a shorthand for --number-of-lines 0

[cppxor2arr]

You can use the -d, --depth option.

dust -d0

If you want exactly --number-of-lines=0:

dust -n0

P.S. Running dust -h or dust --help is helpful for questions like this.

[ModProg]

yes I knew about -n0 I was just wondering if it made sense to have an actual option for that. but maybe not, -n0 is already pretty short. And --only-total is only slightly more self explaining than --number-of-lines=0

[cppxor2arr]

yes I knew about -n0 I was just wondering if it made sense to have an actual option for that.

Oh, I see what you mean. To me, a depth of 0 is pretty close to meaning "only display the total".

[ModProg]

In my case only -n0 worked, because I was piping in filenames to measure the total size of all images on my disk.

[bootandy]

thanks to @cppxor2arr I'll close this.