A function for sorting contents of a directory by storage consumed (sorry for lack of comments throughout). I must admit, I’m particularly pleased with this one

A function for sorting contents of a directory by storage consumed (sorry for lack of comments throughout). I must admit, I’m particularly pleased with this one. (This is for MacOS): #!/usr/bin/env bash function szup() { description=' #: Title: szup #: Synopsis: sort all items within a directory according to size #: Date: 2016-05-30 #: Version: 0.0.5 #: Options: -h | --help: print short usage info #: : -v | --version: print version number ' funcname=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#: Title: ' | sed 's/#: Title: //g') version=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#: Version: ' | sed 's/#: Version: //g') updated="$(echo "$description" | grep '^#: Date: ' | sed 's/#: Date: //g')" function usage() { printf "\n%s\n" "$funcname : $version : $updated" printf "%s\n" "" } function sortdir() { Chars="$(printf " %s" "inspecting " "$(pwd)" | wc -c)" divider===================== divider=$divider$divider$divider$divider format=" %-${Chars}.${Chars}s %35s\n" totalwidth="$(ls -1 | /usr/local/bin/gwc -L)" totalwidth=$(echo $totalwidth | grep -o [0-9]\\+) Chars=$(echo $Chars | grep -o [0-9]\\+) if [ "$totalwidth" -lt "$Chars" ]; then longestvar="$Chars" else longestvar="$totalwidth" fi shortervar=$(/Users/danyoung/bin/qc "$longestvar"*.8) shortervar=$(printf "%1.0f\n" "$shortervar") echo "$shortervar" printf "\n %s\n" "inspecting $(pwd)" printf " %$shortervar.${longestvar}s\n" "$divider" theOutput="$(du -hs "${theDir}"/* | gsort -hr)" Condensed="$(echo -n "$theOutput" | awk '{ print $1","$2 }')" unset arr declare -a arr arr=($(echo "$Condensed")) Count="$(echo "$(printf "%s\n" "${arr[@]}")" | wc -l)" Count=$((Count-1)) for i in $(seq 1 $Count); do printf " %5s %-16s\n" "$var1" "${var2//\/*\//./}" done echo } case "$1" in -h|--help) usage return 0 ;; *) : ;; esac if [ -z "$1" ]; then oldDir="$(pwd)" cd "${1}" local theDir="$(pwd)" sortdir cd "$oldDir" return 0 else : oldDir="$(pwd)" cd "${1}" local theDir="$(pwd)" sortdir cd "$oldDir" return 0 fi }