Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Justin Watt wrote:
>> It'd be great if "sort" had an option to sort by the "-h" output of
>> the "du" command.
>>
>> For example the current output of du is alphabetized by filename with
>> no options to sort:
>>
>> $ du -h --max-depth=1
>> 4.0K ./bin
>> 52M ./code
>> 765M ./Desktop
>> 12K ./mail
>> 17M ./music
>> 124K ./PDF
>> 5.5G ./photos
>> 153M ./public_html
>> 652K ./ufc
>> 7.3G .
>
> That has been asked for many times.
> Perhaps we should add it?
Over a year ago, Mart Somermaa worked on a patch for this,
and there was a pretty long debate:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/6772
Adding this functionality is overdue, so one way or another, I'd like
to do it soon. If we can't find a better solution, I'll go ahead and
burn a single-letter option.
Mart, let me know if you can assign copyright to the FSF,
and I'll send you the paperwork.
Paul?
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