Re: feature request: sort by human-readable disk sizes

[Bert Wesarg]

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    .
> 
> What I'm envisioning is something like this:
> 
> $ du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h
> 4.0K    ./bin
> 12K     ./mail
> 124K    ./PDF
> 652K    ./ufc
> 17M     ./music
> 52M     ./code
> 153M    ./public_html
> 765M    ./Desktop
> 5.5G    ./photos
> 7.3G    .
> 
> Seems like it'd be pretty easy and really useful. What do you think?
There is a patch in the savannah tracker for this:

http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?2565

Bert

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> Justin Watt
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