How can I sort du -h output by size
- by Tom Feiner
I need to get a list of human readable du output.
However, du does not have a "sort by size" option, and piping to "sort" doesn't work with the human readable flag.
For example, running:
du | sort -n -r
Outputs a sorted disk usage by size (descending):
du |sort -n -r
65108 .
61508 ./dir3
2056 ./dir4
1032 ./dir1
508 ./dir2
However, running it with the human readable flag, does not sort properly:
du -h | sort -n -r
508K ./dir2
64M .
61M ./dir3
2.1M ./dir4
1.1M ./dir1
Does anyone know of a way to sort du -h by size?
