On 2014-11-18 11:54, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > >> On 2014-11-18 08:01, Ari Constancio wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Adam Moskowitz <[email protected] >>> du -ks * | sort -n | head -10 >>> >>> $ du -sm *|sort -nr|head -n10 >> >> If your systems support it (GNU coreutils does), have a look at the >> human-readable option (-h): >> >> du -sh /blah |sort -h > > I think Ari's goal was to list the ten largest directories; sort -n won't work > as expected when piped output from du -sh.
`sort -h` understand human-readable numbers. du -sh * |sort -rh |head -10 will provide the same result but with units (G, M, K). -- Yves. http://yves.zioup.com gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
