Subject: bug#5804 closed by Bob Proulx <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#5804: sort --human)

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Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
From: Bob Proulx <[email-masked]>
To: Phil Dumont <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:04:06 -0600
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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

Subject: sort --human
From: Phil Dumont <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:14:05 -0400 (EDT)
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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

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

phil