On 12/16/05 4:07 PM, "Eben King" <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> OK, I'l having a quoting problem. Not people taking things out of context,
> or using quotes without attribution, shell quoting. What I want is the "du
> -sh"-style output, only sorted by size. The only way I can see to do that
> is to get the "du -s"-style output, sort it, trim off the size, and call "du
> -sh' on each one. Rather inefficient, but I don't see a better way.
> (Sorting "du -sh"'s output will put "100M" before "200K".)
>
..snip..
> What am I doing wrong, and what's the right way to do it? Thanks.
Have you tried
PP='cut -f 2- -d " "'
echo "some stuff" | eval $PP
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