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Random sort-order in du

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From: Holger Klene <h.klene <at> gmx.de>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28657 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28657: Random sort-order in du
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 23:41:19 +0200

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* Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> [30.09.17 15:08]:
> But if you use shell-globbing, the shell will automatically
> order the directory alphabetically:
> 
>     $ du -c -hd1 data/*
>     580K	data/a
>     4.0K	data/b
>     4.0K	data/c
>     588K	total
> 
> Hope this helps,
>  - assaf

Who would have thought of passing multiple directories ...

This is the solution to my problem, though I better write it down to not forget, as I'm quite sure, 
I'll not remember it in a month :-)

Thank you for the immediate reply.

Holger

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| |\    Holger Klene

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