On 30/12/09 23:35, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
Package: coreutils Version: 8.1-1 Severity: wishlistI wanted to do this: Give sizes of each files and directories located in $PWD in human-readable-format AND sort output according to sizes of those files and directories. Formerly I did it like this: du -s * | sort -n | awk '{print $2}' | xargs du -sh But that breaks, if file name has space or linefeed. After reading manuals I created this: du -s * | sort -n | cut -f 2- | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -r0 -I "{}" du -sh "{}" But it still breaks, if file name has linefeed. I wanted to be sure that I get what what I want, whatever characters file names have. Therefore I created this script: http://iki.fi/juhtolv/hacks/sh/sortdu.sh.bz2 Some other guy created this kind of script: http://inz.fi/sortdu2.txt But it would be much easier, if du had some sorting functionalities.
Well sorting functionalities should be contained withing sort. Since coretutils 7.5, sort has the -h option to directly sort the output from du -sh cheers, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
