bug#9187: du feature request

[Hugh Esco]

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.  

So instead of: 

$ du -sh /var/log/*
28K     /var/log/apt
76K     /var/log/auth.log
4.0K    /var/log/boot
4.0K    /var/log/daemon.log
36K     /var/log/dmesg
4.0K    /var/log/dpkg.log
12K     /var/log/fsck
1.8M    /var/log/installer
4.0K    /var/log/kern.log
0       /var/log/mail.err
36K     /var/log/mail.info
36K     /var/log/mail.log
0       /var/log/mail.warn
4.0K    /var/log/messages
40K     /var/log/partimage
16K     /var/log/syslog

You'd have instead . . . 

$ du -sh --sort-order=desc /var/log/*
1.8M    /var/log/installer
76K     /var/log/auth.log
40K     /var/log/partimage
36K     /var/log/mail.info
36K     /var/log/mail.log
16K     /var/log/syslog
36K     /var/log/dmesg
28K     /var/log/apt
12K     /var/log/fsck
4.0K    /var/log/boot
4.0K    /var/log/daemon.log
4.0K    /var/log/dpkg.log
4.0K    /var/log/kern.log
4.0K    /var/log/messages
0       /var/log/mail.err
0       /var/log/mail.warn

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