Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi, > > I use "du -ax / | sort -rn > /var/tmp/du-`date --iso`" to get the sorted > > Unfortunately you can't see a difference between a directory and a file > in the output. It would be nice if the directories would be added by a > slash. > > This way you can see if a line is a directory or not. This is even more > important > if you want to use the output for a script. > > I suggest 'du --dir-with-slash' or 'du --trailing-slash' as parameter.
If we were going to do that we should do it unconditionally. I can't see how it would break existing scripts. POSIX can't disallow that can it! As an alternative try: find / -xdev -printf "%k\t%p%y\n" | sed 's/d$/\//;t; s/.$//;' | LC_ALL=C sort -rn -k1,1 Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils