Re: du feature request

[Logan Hansen]

'sort'ing by name isn't a big deal. 'sort'ing by size, however doesn't
work well do to du's rounding of sizes: du -m and compare a file that's 1k
vs 900k. Further, du -h is quite nice, however, 'sort' can't do *anything*
with the results. Rather than having to write a program to parse du -k's
output, sort it, and then make it 'human readable', this would work *much*
better as a builtin option.

Logan

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> According to Logan Hansen on 10/19/2006 12:10 PM:
>> Sirs,
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>> I would like to request a feature to be added to the 'du' command:
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>> a command line switch to sort output by directory name or by size of
>> directory
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> Why?  What can we add to du that can't already be done by pipelining du
> output into sort?
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> This FAQ explains the philosophy of the coreutils:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Why-don_0027t-the-utilities-have-built-in-directory-recursion_003f
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