Re: programs

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, +14:51:44 EET (UTC +0200),
Eric Blake <address@hidden> pressed some keys:

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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.
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> What's wrong with:
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> du -sh0 * | sort -hz | tr '\0' '\n'
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> besides needing coreutils 7.5 or newer?

What if size of one directory is rounded UP to 1M and size of other
directory is rounded DOWN to 1M? How sort-command can know know, which
one is bigger? I am sure, that sorting must be done according to size
in bytes, not according to size of human-readable units.


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