Re: Sorting directories by size

[Kerin Millar]

On 24/08/2021 15:31, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:26 AM hancooper <hancooper@protonmail.com 
> <mailto:hancooper@protonmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     .
>
>     Have got almost what I'd like, except that tho sizes are not in
>     human readable form.
>
>     find "$src" "${daggr[@]}" -type d -exec du {} + | sort -rn
>
>
> Use du -h and feed it into the awk or gawk command in the stackoverflow 
> answer I linked in my recent message. And don't feed it any names 
> containing newlines.

Please, let's not. The commands I have been proposing from the outset 
correctly handle arbitrary pathnames, provided that GNU coreutils is 
available. They only need to be applied correctly rather than be mangled 
into something else.

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Kerin Millar