Re: Enhancement to SORT command.

[Carl Edquist]

> Works great with, eg, 'du -sh * | sort -h'

Or, well, if you want to be more careful about it,

shopt -s dotglob
du -sh0 -- * | sort -hz | tr '\0\n' '\n?'


On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Carl Edquist wrote:

> I think 'sort -h' does just that, though for your input you'll need to remove 
> the spaces between the numeric part and the units.
>
> Eg:
>
> $ (  tr -d ' ' | sort -h ) << EOF
> >  100.0 Kb
> >  303 Mb
> >  4.01 Gb
> >  20 Mb
> >  EOF
> 100.0Kb
> 20Mb
> 303Mb
> 4.01Gb
>
> Works great with, eg, 'du -sh * | sort -h'
>
> Carl
>
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, mm1miq.d@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >  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.