RE: [PATCH] Support for --min-size in du

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Jakob Truelsen wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Voelker, Bernhard
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Jakob Truelsen wrote:
> >
> >> I often find myself using sed to filter out only large entries in the
> >> output of du, this patch adds a --min-size option to du to do this in
> >> a more pratical way.
> >>
> >> commit 3ce873cddcd608a654750ffa67d070c1ce82b036
> >> Author: Jakob Truelsen <address@hidden>
> >> Date:   Tue Oct 11 15:28:26 2011 +0200
> >>
> >>     Add min-size option to du to only show information about large entities
> >
> > why not use e.g. find -size?
> 
> Primarily because I also want folders with lots of medium sized files
> to show up, I have not found a way to do this with find

good point ... although you could use 'sort -h' for filtering, e.g.

  du -ah | sort -hr | head -n 10 

Your --min-size option is not a bad thing, however, maybe it's worth
turning it into --size as in 'find' so that people could also filter
files/directories smaller than a certain size.

Berny