On 2016-02-19, at 08:14, Bigendian Smalls wrote: >> But beware; it may be resource-intensive. > > Alternatively you could du -sk * > file.txt > then cat file.txt|sort > > Saving the trouble of doing it in memory. Though I suspect calculating the > sizes of the folders is much much more intensive than sorting a relatively > brief set of text. > >> Does UNIX sort employ DFSORT when needed/available? > > I don’t know for sure, but I’d be surprised if it did. /bin/sort is a > standard fixture in ‘nixes forever … Could poke at it a bit though to find > out for sure :) > Just thinking that DFSORT is probably more technologically advanced than /bin/sort. If the output of du is saved in a file, that file could probably be used as input do DFSORT. Less confident about piping directly into DFSORT.
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