Package: coreutils Version: 8.1-1 Severity: wishlist
I wanted to do this: Give sizes of each files and directories located in $PWD in human-readable-format AND sort output according to sizes of those files and directories. Formerly I did it like this: du -s * | sort -n | awk '{print $2}' | xargs du -sh But that breaks, if file name has space or linefeed. After reading manuals I created this: du -s * | sort -n | cut -f 2- | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -r0 -I "{}" du -sh "{}" But it still breaks, if file name has linefeed. I wanted to be sure that I get what what I want, whatever characters file names have. Therefore I created this script: http://iki.fi/juhtolv/hacks/sh/sortdu.sh.bz2 Some other guy created this kind of script: http://inz.fi/sortdu2.txt But it would be much easier, if du had some sorting functionalities. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-1 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.89-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv "Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org