On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:33:49 -0700, Todd C. Miller <mill...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> For example, I often do: > > du -sk * | sort -rn | head > > to see the largest disk users. > > However, output in kilobytes is less useful than it used to be due > to larger files now being common. Can't you achieve what you want with `du -sh * | sort -h`? du(1)'s -h options will automatically select the best suffix and sort(1)'s -h will sort first using the suffix then the numerical value. Also if you don't sort -r, you don't need to `| head`. Cheers, Daniel
