Linux - disk usage (du) human readable and sorted by size

Posted by csm888 on Sunday May 17, 2009 @12:27PM
from the earthinfo.org dept.

http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/

This is quick tip to fix a problem that has always bugged me - When showing disk usage in a human readable form (KB, MB, GB) for each subdirectory using “du -sh *”, how can you properly sort it into size order?

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Re:Linux - disk usage (du) human readable and sorted by size by nailer on Monday May 18, 2009 @07:38AM (#614789)

This is a good argument for seperating content from presentation, in the same method an object shell does. For every workaround, there's still the underlying issue needing workarounds in the first place.

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Re:Linux - disk usage (du) human readable and sorted by size by jsares on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @01:51AM (#616344)

this is my solution, comments?

du -s * 2>/dev/null | sort -n | cut -f2 | xargs du -sh 2>/dev/null

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