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According to Logan Hansen on 10/19/2006 12:10 PM:
> Sirs,
> 
> I would like to request a feature to be added to the 'du' command:
> 
> a command line switch to sort output by directory name or by size of
> directory

Why?  What can we add to du that can't already be done by pipelining du
output into sort?

This FAQ explains the philosophy of the coreutils:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Why-don_0027t-the-utilities-have-built-in-directory-recursion_003f

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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