Red Hat

I am using du -h --max-depth=2 to get list of folders by size upto 2 levels down. Problem is I am not able to sort them in max folder size.

Normally this can be achieved by using du -k | sort -nr * but I can't use it here since it conflicts (the -s argument) with the --max-depth=2 argument.

Can someone please suggest if there is any other way to achieve this. I need to keep the list in human readable format though.

478M var
500K usr/sdfijf/best
568K user/dbuser
56M etc/basic/linux
68K var/redhat
9.0K user/aunix


I have following two columns and was expecting to sort them by the human readable folder size with biggest folders being on top (so descending and reverse order basically)


Thanks,
Morgan

Hi U just try the following code

Code:

du -h --max-depth=2 <dir> | sort -nr

Regards
Venikathir