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bug#20936: suggestion for a 'wart-ish' extension off of 'sort'
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Linda Walsh |
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bug#20936: suggestion for a 'wart-ish' extension off of 'sort' |
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Tue, 30 Jun 2015 02:35:17 -0700 |
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On 6/30/2015 12:46 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
du -sh *|sort -h|tail
Why not use 'du -shc * | sort -h | tail -n11'?
The total produced by du will sort after all the individual parts.
Good idea -- didn't know about '-c', but two things, 1 troubling,
the other a confusion. If you have a dir named 'total' it can be
slightly confusing:
Ishtar:/tmp/dutest> du -shc * |sort -h|tail
1.5M sperl,v
3.6M total
5.0M total
Ishtar:/tmp/dutest> du -sh * |hsort -s|tail
1.5M sperl,v
3.6M total
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5.1M TOTAL
But more a more obvious problem is 'du -shc' seems to be coming up with
the wrong number -- i.e. 1.5+3.6 = 5.1, not 5.0.
In my original example, it's off by more:
Ishtar:linux/linux-4.1.0> du -sch *|sort -h|tail
6.7M kernel
8.4M tools
26M net
29M sound
30M Documentation
31M include
37M fs
128M arch
330M drivers
645M total
Ishtar:linux/linux-4.1.0> du -sh *|hsort -s|tail
8.4M tools
26M net
29M sound
30M Documentation
31M include
37M fs
128M arch
330M drivers
---- -----
649.4M TOTAL