Lauri Tirkkonen(la...@hacktheplanet.fi) on 2020.01.29 01:31:56 +0200: > On Tue, Jan 28 2020 18:03:19 +0100, Florian Obser wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:58:40AM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:29:39 -0500, Daniel Jakots wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Yes, I forgot about "sort -h". Old habits die hard :-) > > > > ... which is not in posix, netbsd nor illumos. > > So, do you think that 'du -m' will be in all those then? POSIX doesn't > have it [0]. > > The way I see it, the entire conversation in this thread is about doing > things that might be useful to people. IMO, arguing about where > extensions are or aren't implemented isn't productive.
Yes it is. We try to avoid adding options whereever we can, because * every option letter we grab thats not used for the same purpose elsewhere can crate problems down the road * more options means more bugs B > > [0]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/du.html > > -- > Lauri Tirkkonen | lotheac @ IRCnet >
