Debian: how to decently sort du -sh *

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There is a much better solution (on systems which support it, OS X doesn't).

du -h | sort -h

sort -rh for reverse sorting, pipe into head or tail for the first/last few etc.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-sort-du-h-output-by-si...

Or, for all systems:

du -sk |sort -n

Sure, the results are in kilobytes but it's not that hard to read. It's even clearer in a way, it's obvious at a glance as to which entries are orders of magnitude bigger, since they have more numbers next to them.

Yes, that is probably better. I needed to use du -k (Centos).

Just used on my nas!

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