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Old 08-25-2009
du -k . display size wise

Hi,
I want to display all the directories with ascending order in size. For example,

$ du -k .

1111111 ./dir1
222222222 ./dir2
333333333 ./dir3
444444444 ./dir4

How do i get the above desired result with du -k . command?

Thanks
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Old 08-25-2009
you can try this,

du -k | sort -n
 
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