On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:04:30PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 23 September 2011 10:53:56 Darac Marjal wrote: > > As an aside, this is why I don't recommend using "du -h" with "sort -n". > > "du -h" is a great way to see where your space is being used, as it > > presents the sizes in human readable format. However, "sort -n" sorts > > numerically but critically, it doesn't know that, in this instance, 23G > > is larger than 164M > > Thanks, Darac. In fairness to my advisors, I must point out that they > recommended sort -h. But my system, for reasons of its own, jibs at - h (I > have included one of its jibs in the passage you quoted). So I changed it > to - n and left myself the task of picking out the largest file. My human > brain had no difficulty in recognising 22G as the largest file!! > > Thanks for the recommendations. I shall install and look at them - it would > be nice to have choice next time I leave myself up the creek without a > paddle. Oh, I'd actually missed the fact that "sort -h" exists and does exactly what I'd been advocating. I assume this is a new feature that's (at least) in sid. What a pip! -- Darac Marjal
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