[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#9187: closed (du feature request)

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> du feature request
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> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:06:52 -0400
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> 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.  
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> So instead of: 
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> $ 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
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> You'd have instead . . . 
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> $ 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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> Re: bug#9187: du feature request
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> Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:15:18 -0600
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> On 07/27/2011 08:06 PM, Hugh Esco wrote:
> > 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.
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> Rather than bloat du with additional --sort-order parameters, which will 
> never meet everyone's needs, it's better to make the standard sort able 
> to generically handle du -h output just like any other sort column.  So 
> much so that in fact, we've already done it, by adding -h to sort.
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> > $ du -sh /var/log/*
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> You should be pleased with:
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> du -sh /var/log/* | sort -k1,1h
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> (You may need to upgrade to coreutils 7.5 or newer)
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