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bug#9187: du feature request
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Eric Blake |
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bug#9187: du feature request |
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Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:15:18 -0600 |
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tag 9187 notabug
thanks
On 07/27/2011 08:06 PM, Hugh Esco wrote:
perhaps I just need to learn the right switches to apply to sort on the
other side of a pipe, but I have often wanted to sort the results of du
in descending order and have it get it how to parse the -s(ummary) -h
(uman) readable output.
Rather than bloat du with additional --sort-order parameters, which will
never meet everyone's needs, it's better to make the standard sort able
to generically handle du -h output just like any other sort column. So
much so that in fact, we've already done it, by adding -h to sort.
$ du -sh /var/log/*
You should be pleased with:
du -sh /var/log/* | sort -k1,1h
(You may need to upgrade to coreutils 7.5 or newer)
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