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Feature Request: du -h or du --si sort by human readable value |
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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:39:07 +0200 |
Hi GNU core utility developers:
First of all thank you very much for developing the software that we have come to rely on. It's well appreciated!
I have a feature request based on a question that was asked on
askubuntu.com
the question is: why does du -h not sort by the human readable value.
Example:
1) du returns random sort order
du -h /home/user/Photos
156M /home/user/Photos/cats
124M /home/user/Photos/vacation
1G /home//user/Photos/family
148K /home/user/Photos/profile
2) du returns sorted by number but not by acutal value in this example G is large than M and M is larger than K
du -h /home/user/Photos | sort -n
1G /home//user/Photos/family
124M /home/user/Photos/vacation
148K /home/user/Photos/profile
156M /home/user/Photos/cats
3) this works partially but is very difficult to remember
du -k * | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh | head -n 10
4) This is even more ridiculous, computers are supposed to do the work for us, not make attempt impossible memorization tasks.
alias duf='du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m{\t});for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f"; last};$s=$s/1024}'\'
Please add a sorting function to du -h and du --si to sort the human readable values to make your wonderful utility even more useful.
This is program one time, and it's done for everyone. The entire GNU and linux communities will be beter for this time saving feature.
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Damiön la Bagh
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Re: bug#12312: Feature Request: du -h or du --si sort by human readable value |
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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:20:32 -0700 |
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tag 12312 notabug
thanks
On 08/30/2012 11:39 AM, kat amsterdam wrote:
> Hi GNU core utility developers:
>
> First of all thank you very much for developing the software that we have
> come to rely on. It's well appreciated!
Thank you.
>
> I have a feature request based on a question that was asked on askubuntu.com
>
> the question is: why does du -h not sort by the human readable value.
du(1) doesn't sort, you use sort(1) for sorting.
> 1) du returns random sort order
> *du -h /home/user/Photos*
to get it in sorted order,
du -h /home/user/Photos* | sort -k1,1h
> 2) du returns sorted by number but not by acutal value in this example G is
> large than M and M is larger than K
> *du -h /home/user/Photos | sort -n *
Don't use sort -n, use sort -h.
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> Please add a sorting function to du -h and du --si to sort the human
> readable values to make your wonderful utility even more useful.
>
We already have: sort -h, in coreutils 7.5 (2009). Therefore, I'm
closing this bug.
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