A friend just showed me this cool new option for sort. You now can sort with -h, which works great with du -h.
du -hs * | sort -h
Available since RHEL6 and current Fedora. Sorry no RHEL5.
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sort -h first appeared in GNU sort in the August 2009 release, so Fedora’s had it for a long time. However, since RHEL 5 came out in 2007, its users have to put up with 5-year-old GNU tools.
But the nice thing about text-oriented GNU tools is that it is dead easy to have multiple versions on your system and use your path to select, by just doing something like
download coreutils 8.16
./configure –prefix=/opt/coreutils-8.16
make
sudo make install
export PATH=/opt/coreutils-8.16/bin:$PATH
Hi Joe,
yes, but I try not to depend on stuff not available out of the box. I was to long a Trainer and it sticks.