tag 9187 notabug thanks 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.
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.
$ du -sh /var/log/*
You should be pleased with: du -sh /var/log/* | sort -k1,1h (You may need to upgrade to coreutils 7.5 or newer) -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
