Sort the size usage of a directory tree by gigabytes, kilobytes, megabytes, then bytes.

dh() { du -ch --max-depth=1 "${@-.}"|sort -h }
Since coreutils 7.6 provides sort -h
Sample Output 
/usr/share/games $ dh
298K	./qlife
1,4M	./eboard
2,7M	./gtklife
9,9M	./csmash
18M	./stepmania
27M	./frozen-bubble
30M	./etracer
86M	./wormux
174M	.
174M	total

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By: gibboris
2009-10-30 15:30:16
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What Others Think

What shell and what OS are we talking about here, this does not work on the default korn shell on HP-UX 11.0 nor the default bash shell on Mac OS X v10.5.
zlemini · 854 weeks ago
zlemini: Only recent versions of GNU coreutils (where the GNU sort command is from) have the -h option. It was only added like 4 months ago. So it will probably be a year or two before its more commonly available.
deltaray · 846 weeks and 4 days ago
Needs a semicolon (or newline) before the close curly brace. dh() { du -ch --max-depth=1 "${@-.}"|sort -h; }
splante · 776 weeks and 6 days ago

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