Hi,
Am Thu, 20 May 2010 12:05:50 +0200
schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez<corsac@debian.org>:
On 20/05/2010 11:21, Ron Johnson wrote:
hat does this do that existing tools don't?
$ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10
131960 ./.Newsletters.Washington_Post/cur
not sure dirsum can do that either, but it's painful that du itself
can't sort, since you can't use du -h before piping to sort.
Well, newer versions of sort added the functionality you miss, citing
from the GNU coreutils manual [1]:
‘-h’
‘--human-numeric-sort’
‘--sort=human-numeric’
Sort numerically, as per the --numeric-sort option below, and in
addition handle IEC or SI suffixes like MiB, MB etc (Block size).
Note a mixture of IEC and SI suffixes is not supported and will be
flagged as an error. Also the numbers must be abbreviated
uniformly. I.E. values with different precisions like 6000K and 5M
will be sorted incorrectly.