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

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, 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...

It is likely that they have simply aliased the command to include common 
switches. Edit /etc/bashrc or whatever the Mandrake specific for that is 
to remove or alter the aliases. 

Jason Clifford
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