Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > See disussions in bug #563118 . It is obvioous and evident, that in > order to solve that bug some new utility is needed. Let's call it > "sortdu". At least it is good working title.
I'm rejecting the idea of adding a sortdu to moreutils. The point of
moreutils is to gather new tools in the spirit of the original unix
tools. Writing a new program because sort and du -h don't mix w/o loss
of accuracy is not in that spirit.
There's nothing really wrong with the shell pipelines shown in #563118,
aside from them being a bit complex. That complexity could be reduced if
du had a way to format its output like this:
412 412K .
Then the pipeline becomes just
du --format="%i %h %f" | sort -n | awk '{print $2, $3}'
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