On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > This feature already exists. From the 7.5 NEWS: > > sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers > while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc. > > The latest stable version is 8.5, with 8.6 due shortly. Consider upgrading. > > -- > Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
Thanks and sorry I did not notice it in the news. (I did look through the news.) I now checked that the latest version (8.5) does work with the output of "du". On a related note, couldn't all GNU programs (such as "du" and "ls") be made to print (and read?) numbers and dates formatted according to the locale setting, including thousands-separators, etc? That would avoid having a special option for every program.
