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From: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:14:05 -0400 (EDT)

It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:

  du -s --human * | sort --human

phil

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>
Cc: 5804-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:04:06 -0600

Phil Dumont wrote:
> It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
>   du -s --human * | sort --human

Ask and you shall receive.  Seek and ye shall find!  (Or in this case
if you had searched you would have found it. :-)

Sort has had that option since coreutils release 7.5.  Here is the
release announcement.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00201.html

    * Noteworthy changes in release 7.5 (2009-08-20) [stable]
    ** New features
      sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
      while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.

Meanwhile, coreutils release 8.4 (2010-01-13) is current and stable.

Bob

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>
Cc: 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:03 -0600

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On 03/30/2010 09:14 AM, Phil Dumont wrote:
> It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
> 
>   du -s --human * | sort --human

It does, as of coreutils 7.5.  Are you running something older?

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Message #16 received at 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: glen lenker <glen.lenker <at> gmail.com>
To: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>
Cc: 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:08:30 -0700

Hi Phil,

Is this what you want?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=159faba1376ffd5a46fe4bbc780d85dd3e502cea


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Phil Dumont
<phil <at> solidstatescientific.com> wrote:
> It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
>
>  du -s --human * | sort --human
>
> phil
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Glen Lenker

Message #19 received at 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano <at> gnu.org>
To: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>
Cc: 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:13:18 +0200

sort supports --human-numeric-sort since coreutils 7.5.

Cheers,
Giuseppe



Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com> writes:

> It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
>
>   du -s --human * | sort --human
>
> phil

Message #22 received at 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org>
To: 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:42:06 +0200

Bob Proulx wrote 704 bytes:
>     ** New features
>       sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
>       while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.

Interesting. So does it sort correctly 1 MB < 1000 KiB < 1 MiB ?

Message #25 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drake Wyrm <wyrm <at> haell.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:46:54 -0700

Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org> wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote 704 bytes:
> >     ** New features
> >       sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
> >       while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.
> 
> Interesting. So does it sort correctly 1 MB < 1000 KiB < 1 MiB ?

$ { echo 1MB; echo 1000KiB; echo 1MiB; } | sort -h
sort: both SI and IEC prefixes present on units

That would be a no to the "sort" part, but perhaps a yes to the
"correctly" part.

$ { echo 1001KiB; echo 1000KiB; echo 1MiB; } | sort -h
1000KiB
1001KiB
1MiB
$ { echo 1001KB; echo 1000KB; echo 1MB; } | sort -h
1000KB
1001KB
1MB

Seems to work fine when you give it just one type of unit to handle.

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Message #28 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:28:07 +0200

Drake Wyrm wrote 796 bytes:
> Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org> wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote 704 bytes:
> > >     ** New features
> > >       sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
> > >       while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.
> > 
> > Interesting. So does it sort correctly 1 MB < 1000 KiB < 1 MiB ?
> 
> $ { echo 1MB; echo 1000KiB; echo 1MiB; } | sort -h
> sort: both SI and IEC prefixes present on units
> 
> That would be a no to the "sort" part, but perhaps a yes to the
> "correctly" part.

Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word *correctly* that
I wasn't previously aware of.

Michal Svoboda

Message #31 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:10:54 +0200

Michal Svoboda wrote:
> Drake Wyrm wrote 796 bytes:
>> Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org> wrote:
>> > Bob Proulx wrote 704 bytes:
>> > >     ** New features
>> > >       sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
>> > >       while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.
>> >
>> > Interesting. So does it sort correctly 1 MB < 1000 KiB < 1 MiB ?
>>
>> $ { echo 1MB; echo 1000KiB; echo 1MiB; } | sort -h
>> sort: both SI and IEC prefixes present on units
>>
>> That would be a no to the "sort" part, but perhaps a yes to the
>> "correctly" part.
>
> Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word *correctly* that
> I wasn't previously aware of.

;-)
Perhaps he meant that it works as documented:

  `-h'
  `--human-numeric-sort'
  `--sort=human-numeric'
       Sort numerically, as per the `--numeric-sort' option below, and in
       addition handle IEC or SI suffixes like MiB, MB etc (*note Block
       size::).  Note a mixture of IEC and SI suffixes is not supported
       and will be flagged as an error.  Also the numbers must be
       abbreviated uniformly.  I.E. values with different precisions like
       6000K and 5M will be sorted incorrectly.

Message #34 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:32:18 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote 1206 bytes:
> ;-)
> Perhaps he meant that it works as documented:
> 
>   `-h'
>   `--human-numeric-sort'
>   `--sort=human-numeric'
>        Sort numerically, as per the `--numeric-sort' option below, and in
>        addition handle IEC or SI suffixes like MiB, MB etc (*note Block
>        size::).  Note a mixture of IEC and SI suffixes is not supported
>        and will be flagged as an error.  Also the numbers must be
>        abbreviated uniformly.  I.E. values with different precisions like
>        6000K and 5M will be sorted incorrectly.

I see, I wasn't aware of the "Note". In that case, it is suitably
described as "this will sort whatever the other coreutils give you when
you use -h".

Michal Svoboda 

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