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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by lsiebert on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:35PM (#14924121)
I'd also consider things like piping to awk or finding the largest files in a set of directories. Human readable sorting is much more complex.
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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by Recursing on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:12PM (#14924421)
Isn't there `sort -h`?
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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by kbenson on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:10PM (#14924833)
It's almost as if people used these tools together enough, that they made an effort to make them work well together. ;)

Seriously, "du -h | sort -h" is a regular command for me.

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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by bostonvaulter2 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:58PM (#14925495)
If you do it quite a bit you may want to check out ncdu, it is an ncurses directory size viewer. Super handy and fast for what it does.
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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by kbenson on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:01PM (#14925516)
curses is actually less useful to me. It's often mixed with a grep and a head or tail with a tee.
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