Re: Bug#563118: du cannot sort its output without help from other programs

[Eric Blake]

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According to Juhapekka Tolvanen on 12/30/2009 4:35 PM:
> I 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.

What's wrong with:

du -sh0 * | sort -hz | tr '\0' '\n'

besides needing coreutils 7.5 or newer?

> But it would be much easier, if du had some sorting functionalities.

Rather, it IS much easier by using du's nul-termination functionality,
coupled with sort's nul-termination and human-size sorting.  Use each tool
for what it is good at.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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