On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Kwan Lowe 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".)
>
> Try this:
>
> ls |xargs du -sk|sort -n|cut -f2|xargs du -sh
>
> It does a two-pass display. First, grab the output in kilobytes, then sort by size.
> Pass this output to 'du -sh' but this time show the human-readable format.
Works on $PWD. What if I want to look at dirs elsewhere, or if they're not
all in the same place? I don't know a satisfactory method of passing info
into xargs. There's "--replace", but apparently I don't know how to use it.
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