Logan Hansen wrote:
> 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

Yes I can definitely see the need for that.
However what you need is quite easily achieved with existing tools.
For example:

$ du -hbs * | sort -k1,1n | human.py --columns=1 --divisor=1000
 336.2K msort-8.26.tar.bz2
 442.0K unac-1.7.0.tar.gz
   4.2M coreutils-5.1.1.tar.bz2
   5.1M coreutils-5.97.tar.bz2
   5.3M coreutils-6.0.tar.bz2
   7.7M coreutils-6.2.tar.gz
  15.2M glibc-2.4.tar.bz2

$ dutop
39%     14.5M     ./glibc-2.4.tar.bz2
20%      7.3M     ./coreutils-6.2.tar.gz
13%      5.0M     ./coreutils-6.0.tar.bz2
13%      4.8M     ./coreutils-5.97.tar.bz2
10%      4.0M     ./coreutils-5.1.1.tar.bz2

Both dutop and human.py are available at:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/

Pádraig.


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