Re: Enhancement to SORT command.

[✓ Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor]

Hello
Sort -h does the job, doesn’t it ?

For example :

Du -csh * | sort -h

Regards

Le lun. 20 sept. 2021 à 19:35, Godfather <mm1miq.d@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> The SORT command in GNU coreutils does not have a sort by DATA SIZE
> parameter.
>
> for example, to sort:-
> -----------
> 100.0 Kb
> 303 Mb
> 4.01 Gb
> 20 Mb
> -----------
> sorts output will be:-
> -----------
> 303 Mb
> 100.0 Kb
> 20 Mb
> 4.01 Gb
> -----------
> It would be nice if thier was a parameter that sorted by size so the output
> would be 100.0 Kb, 20 Mb, 303 Mb, 4.01 Gb
>
> Would be great if such a parameter was added.
>
> Regards.
>
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Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor