Subject: Re: bug#12312: Feature Request: du -h or du --si sort by human readable value
From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
To: kat amsterdam <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:20:32 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tag 12312 notabug
thanks

On 08/30/2012 11:39 AM, kat amsterdam wrote:
> Hi GNU core utility developers:
> 
> First of all thank you very much for developing the software that we have
> come to rely on. It's well appreciated!

Thank you.

> 
> I have a feature request based on a question that was asked on askubuntu.com
> 
> the question is: why does du -h  not sort by the human readable value.

du(1) doesn't sort, you use sort(1) for sorting.

> 1) du returns random sort order
> *du -h /home/user/Photos*

to get it in sorted order,

du -h /home/user/Photos* | sort -k1,1h

> 2) du returns sorted by number but not by acutal value in this example G is
> large than M and M is larger than K
> *du -h /home/user/Photos | sort -n *

Don't use sort -n, use sort -h.

> 
> Please add a sorting function to du -h and du --si to sort the human
> readable values to make your wonderful utility even more useful.
> 

We already have: sort -h, in coreutils 7.5 (2009).  Therefore, I'm
closing this bug.

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