Hello,
On 06/30/2015 03:28 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
I admit the ability to show a summary line might not bethe first
thing you'd think a pure-sorting utility might do, but it would be
awfully handy if sort had a 'Numeric sum' option ("-N" -- preferred
'-s', but it's already taken) to go with the -h sorting:
<...>
> du -sh *|sort -h|tail
A slightly different approach would be to defer the "human" size to later,
and enable to do any calculation you want manually, then convert to human sizes with
"numfmt":
du -s * \
| sort -n \
| awk '{ sum+=$1 ; print } END { print sum, "Total" }' \
| numfmt --to=iec
One more thing: instead of 'du -s *', perhaps 'du -d1' would work better
(depending on your needs), as it will print sizes used only by directories.
- assaf
