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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 firs
by epo 13y ago
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-size-under-linux/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-sort-du-h-output-by-si...
- joosters 13y agoOr, 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.
- epo 13y agoYes, that is probably better. I needed to use du -k (Centos).