On 10/11/2011 08:00 PM, Jakob Truelsen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Voelker, Bernhard > <bernhard.voel...@siemens-enterprise.com> wrote: >> >> Jakob Truelsen wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Voelker, Bernhard >>> <bernhard.voel...@siemens-enterprise.com> wrote: >>>> Jakob Truelsen wrote: >>>> >>>>> I often find myself using sed to filter out only large entries in the >>>>> output of du, this patch adds a --min-size option to du to do this in >>>>> a more pratical way. >>>>> >>>>> commit 3ce873cddcd608a654750ffa67d070c1ce82b036 >>>>> Author: Jakob Truelsen <ja...@scalgo.com> >>>>> Date: Tue Oct 11 15:28:26 2011 +0200 >>>>> >>>>> Add min-size option to du to only show information about large >>>>> entities >>>> >>>> why not use e.g. find -size? >>> >>> Primarily because I also want folders with lots of medium sized files >>> to show up, I have not found a way to do this with find >> >> good point ... although you could use 'sort -h' for filtering, e.g. >> >> du -ah | sort -hr | head -n 10 >> >> Your --min-size option is not a bad thing, however, maybe it's worth >> turning it into --size as in 'find' so that people could also filter >> files/directories smaller than a certain size. >> >> Berny > > That is a good idea, here is a revised patch implementing that
Sorry for the tardy response. This was actually proposed previously. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-01/msg00105.html It's still a tempting option to add. Given the simplicity, and usefulness +1 from me. I'll apply it after the imminent release unless there are objections. cheers, Pádraig.
