GNU bug report logs - #20936
sort: add summary line option

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 07:29:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20936: suggestion for a 'wart-ish' extension off of 'sort'
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:46:04 +0200

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:28:09AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I admit the ability to show a summary line might not bethe first
> thing you'd think a pure-sorting utility might do, but it would be
> awfully handy if sort had a 'Numeric sum' option ("-N" -- preferred
> '-s', but it's already taken) to go with the -h sorting:
> 
> ala:
> ----
> > du -sh *|sort -h|tail

Why not use 'du -shc * | sort -h | tail -n11'?
The total produced by du will sort after all the individual parts.

Thanks,
Erik
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