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Old 06-12-2009
du -sh *| sort -rn in solaris 10

Hi all

The command over does not sort corrrectly when used with du -sh (Solaris 10). I have to use du -sk *|sort -rn to sort in the right order. Have anybody has this problem.
# 2  
Old 06-12-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver you are using -sh option

The -sh option is:
All sizes are scaled to a human readable format, for example, 14K, 234M, 2.7G, or 3.0T. Scaling is done by repetitively dividing by 1024.

Thus, you would have to create an awk script or other function to sort to:
T G M K -- since there is no sort to put them in order.

Or, use the -sk option, then awk (or other function) to convert to human-readable.
# 3  
Old 06-12-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by congngo
Hi all

The command over does not sort corrrectly when used with du -sh (Solaris 10). I have to use du -sk *|sort -rn to sort in the right order. Have anybody has this problem.
'cause '-h' stands for:
Code:
     -h    All sizes are scaled to a human readable  format,  for
           example,  14K, 234M, 2.7G, or 3.0T. Scaling is done by
           repetitively dividing by 1024.

# 4  
Old 08-26-2009
Ciao,
ho scritto una sequenza di comandi per questa necessitą , ti faccio un esempio:

[root@server]#pwd
/var

[root@server]# \du -sh * | tee /tmp/prova.txt | grep G | sort -rn ; cat /tmp/prova.txt | grep M | sort -rn ; cat /tmp/prova.txt | grep K | sort -rn ; rm /tmp/prova.txt

1.2G spool
1.1G sadm
239M apache2
139M opt
45M smop
38M tmp
[...]
983K cron
937K lib
552K lp
162K cache
153K ldap
131K snmp
128K run
74K preserve
[...]


L'ho testato pił volte e funziona alla grande!
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Old 08-26-2009
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# 6  
Old 08-26-2009
Hi,
i wrote a commands sequence for this purpose , this is an example:

[root@server]#pwd
/var

[root@server]# \du -sh * | tee /tmp/prova.txt | grep G | sort -rn ; cat /tmp/prova.txt | grep M | sort -rn ; cat /tmp/prova.txt | grep K | sort -rn ; rm /tmp/prova.txt

1.2G spool
1.1G sadm
239M apache2
139M opt
45M smop
38M tmp
[...]
983K cron
937K lib
552K lp
162K cache
153K ldap
131K snmp
128K run
74K preserve
[...]

I used it many times and it works GREAT!
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