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Numerically sorted human readable disk usage

Terminal - Numerically sorted human readable disk usage
du -x --max-depth=1 | sort -n | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs du -hx --max-depth=0
2010-02-18 19:46:47
User: d34dh0r53
Functions: awk du sort xargs
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Numerically sorted human readable disk usage

Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this.

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du --max-depth=1
2009-08-08 00:46:29
User: Octave
Functions: du
Tags: disk usage
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory
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sudo du -ks $(ls -d */) | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh 2> /dev/null
2009-08-17 22:21:09
User: Code_Bleu
Functions: cut du ls sort sudo xargs
Tags: disk usage
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

This allows the output to be sorted from largest to smallest in human readable format.

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du -hd 1
2009-08-10 13:11:22
User: Tuirgin
Functions: du
Tags: disk usage osx
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory

OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.

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sudo du -sh $(ls -d */) 2> /dev/null
2009-08-07 19:00:09
User: Code_Bleu
Functions: du ls sudo
Tags: disk usage
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory
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du -h | sort -hr
2011-11-06 23:15:36
User: mooselimb
Functions: du sort
Tags: disk usage size sort du directories
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

as per eightmillion's comment.

Simply economical :)

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That's brilliant. And yeah, why isn't there an argument for this?

Comment by Xinerama 173 weeks and 5 days ago

The most recent version of gnu coreutils contains sort with the -h option:

?-h?

?--human-numeric-sort?

?--sort=human-numeric?

Sort numerically, as per the --numeric-sort option below, and in addition handle IEC or SI suffixes like MiB, MB etc (Block size). Note a mixture of IEC and SI suffixes is not supported and will be flagged as an error. Also the numbers must be abbreviated uniformly. I.E. values with different precisions like 6000K and 5M will be sorted incorrectly.

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I believe that this is in core-utils 8.4 -- the version in Ubuntu Karmic is core-utils 7.4, which does not support this.

Comment by bartonski 173 weeks ago

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