Francis T. O'Donovan

Senior Data Science Manager at Hospital IQ – Planet discoverer, researcher, developer, geek.

Nix: Sorted human readable sizes

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du -hsc * | sort -h

What each option means for du:

h: show sizes in human readable format (1K, 1M, 1G, …)

s: summarize: display only a total for each argument

c: also display a grand total

The -h option on sort makes it understand the -h format (human readable) on du.

Via SuperUser.

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