'sort'ing by name isn't a big deal. 'sort'ing by size, however doesn't work well do to du's rounding of sizes: du -m and compare a file that's 1k vs 900k. Further, du -h is quite nice, however, 'sort' can't do *anything* with the results. Rather than having to write a program to parse du -k's output, sort it, and then make it 'human readable', this would work *much* better as a builtin option.
Logan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > - -- > Life is short - so eat dessert first! > > Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFOB9W84KuGfSFAYARAo5QAKC8WtjJHtMAbhqM5/9lWk4uMejuOwCcDbIc > e1hlGX3EUesWdTZVPdGdeLw= > =8tOJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
