Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
Justin Watt wrote:
It'd be great if "sort" had an option to sort by the "-h" output of
the "du" command.
For example the current output of du is alphabetized by filename with
no options to sort:
$ du -h --max-depth=1
4.0K ./bin
52M ./code
765M ./Desktop
12K ./mail
17M ./music
124K ./PDF
5.5G ./photos
153M ./public_html
652K ./ufc
7.3G .
That has been asked for many times.
Perhaps we should add it?
Over a year ago, Mart Somermaa worked on a patch for this,
and there was a pretty long debate:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/6772
Adding this functionality is overdue, so one way or another, I'd like
to do it soon. If we can't find a better solution, I'll go ahead and
burn a single-letter option.
Mart, let me know if you can assign copyright to the FSF,
and I'll send you the paperwork.
Paul?