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bug#17610: Suggested enhancement to du command
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#17610: Suggested enhancement to du command |
Date: |
Tue, 27 May 2014 17:03:45 +0100 |
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On 05/27/2014 08:47 AM, A wrote:
> I would like to request an enhancement to the du utility.
>
> Being as how (I would assume) most people use du to determine what is taking
> up all the disk space, I would like to request that du provide output limited
> to a range of sizes. For example I want to only see files greater than or
> equal to 20MB. This is the greatly preferred option.
v8.21 (2013-02-14) supports this with:
du -t 20MB
> Failing this, then I would like to see either
> a) output formatted so as to be able to feed it to the "sort" utility and
> get a list of files sorted by size or
v7.5 (2009-08-20) support this with:
du -h | sort -h
v8.21 also has numfmt which supports this is a more accurate/general manner:
du -B1 | sort -k1,1n | numfmt --to=iec-i
> b) an option in du to sort files by size.
Definitely not. sorting is complicated and it's
best to avoid munging multiple functions to a single unit.
> Currently attempting to sort by size results in a mish-mash of pseudo sorted
> files. Just so you know, I always use the -h option so as to get human
> readable format (which for the record is a fantastic option and I would love
> to see it as the default).
thanks,
Pádraig.