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

[Gordon Joly]

At 13:11 +0100 2003/07/03, Stephen Harker wrote:
>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



Fine - thanks. But my point is generic as well as specific....

Gordo

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