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List:       coreutils-bug
Subject:    Re: du feature request
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2006-11-06 16:40:49
Message-ID: 454F6591.1090801 () users ! sourceforge ! net
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Logan Hansen wrote:
> 'sort'ing by name isn't a big deal. 'sort'ing by size, however doesn't
> work well do to du's rounding of sizes: du -m and compare a file that's 1k
> vs 900k. Further, du -h is quite nice, however, 'sort' can't do *anything*
> with the results. Rather than having to write a program to parse du -k's
> output, sort it, and then make it 'human readable', this would work *much*
> better as a builtin option.

Maybe take a look at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?2565>? I'm 
currently petitioning to get this, or an equivalent patch, added to sort.

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Matthew
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