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Suggested enhancement to du command

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From: A <publicface <at> bak.rr.com>
To: 17610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17610: 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

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