[Gllug] Mandrake is too clever by half (0.5)

[Stephen Harker]

On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:52, Gordon Joly wrote:
> Mandrake is too clever by half....
>
> I have often invoked....
>
> du -s * | sort -n
>
> "Clever clever" Mandrake give the results of du (be default?) as
>
> 1.1G
> 20k
> 246M
> 23M
>
> etc so you cannot pipe to "numerical sort" as above...

Try using du -b to get answers in bytes 

  du -b -s * | sort -n

SteveH

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