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Suggested enhancement to du command

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From: A <publicface <at> bak.rr.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Suggested enhancement to du command
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 00:47:16 -0700

I would like to request an enhancement to the du utility.

Being as how (I would assume) most people use du to determine what is 
taking up all the disk space, I would like to request that du provide 
output limited to a range of sizes.  For example I want to only see 
files greater than or equal to 20MB.  This is the greatly preferred 
option.  Failing this, then I would like to see either
    a) output formatted so as to be able to feed it to the "sort" 
utility and get a list of files sorted by size or
    b) an option in du to sort files by size.

Currently attempting to sort by size results in a mish-mash of pseudo 
sorted files.  Just so you know, I always use the -h option so as to get 
human readable format (which for the record is a fantastic option and I 
would love to see it as the default).

Thank you for your consideration.



- Andrew

Message #8 received at 17610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: A <publicface <at> bak.rr.com>
Cc: 17610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17610: Suggested enhancement to du command
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 17:03:45 +0100

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On 05/27/2014 08:47 AM, A wrote:
> I would like to request an enhancement to the du utility.
> 
> Being as how (I would assume) most people use du to determine what is taking up all the disk space, I would like to request that du provide output limited to a range of sizes.  For example I want to only see files greater than or equal to 20MB.  This is the greatly preferred option.

v8.21 (2013-02-14) supports this with:

  du -t 20MB

>  Failing this, then I would like to see either
>     a) output formatted so as to be able to feed it to the "sort" utility and get a list of files sorted by size or

v7.5 (2009-08-20) support this with:

  du -h | sort -h

v8.21 also has numfmt which supports this is a more accurate/general manner:

  du -B1 | sort -k1,1n | numfmt --to=iec-i

>     b) an option in du to sort files by size.

Definitely not. sorting is complicated and it's
best to avoid munging multiple functions to a single unit.

> Currently attempting to sort by size results in a mish-mash of pseudo sorted files.  Just so you know, I always use the -h option so as to get human readable format (which for the record is a fantastic option and I would love to see it as the default).

thanks,
Pádraig.

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