Display the human-readable sizes of all files and folders in the current directory with 3 decimal places
9.543 MiB bin 4.000 kiB boot 28.323 kiB dev 66.523 MiB etc 151.247 GiB home 17.196 MiB lib 17.196 MiB lib64 4.000 kiB media 4.000 kiB mnt 8.000 kiB opt 376.264 MiB root 4.358 MiB sbin 4.000 kiB selinux 4.000 kiB srv 10.098 MiB sys 2.693 MiB tmp 2.244 GiB usr 72.920 GiB var 226.903 GiB total
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du -Lsbc * | sort -n -k1,1 | awk 'function hr(bytes) {hum[1024**4]="TiB";hum[1024**3]="GiB";hum[1024**2]="MiB";hum[1024]="kiB";hum[1]="B"; for (x=1024**3;x>=1;x/=1024) {if (bytes>=x){return sprintf("%8.3f %s", bytes/x, hum[x]);}}} {print hr($1) "\t" $2}'