Subject: bug#20936: suggestion for a 'wart-ish' extension off of 'sort'

From: Linda Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:57:46 -0700

On 6/30/2015 3:51 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>
>> Ishtar:/tmp/dutest> du -shc * |sort -h|tail
>> 1.5M    sperl,v
>> 3.6M    total
>> 5.0M    total
>> Ishtar:/tmp/dutest> du -sh * |hsort -s|tail
>> 1.5M    sperl,v
>> 3.6M    total
>> ----    -----
>> 5.1M    TOTAL
>>
>> But more a more obvious problem is 'du -shc' seems to be coming up with
>> the wrong number -- i.e. 1.5+3.6 = 5.1, not 5.0.
> That are probably rounding errors avoided by du, that hsort cannot avoid
> anymore.
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1) I think you're right, but 2) it still looks odd to see 1.5+3.6=5.0 
and not 5.1