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Re: du feature request
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Eric Blake |
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Re: du feature request |
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Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:59:02 -0600 |
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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
Why? What can we add to du that can't already be done by pipelining du
output into sort?
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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Eric Blake address@hidden
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