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. > > 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. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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