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List and sort directories by size on disk
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| du -sk * | sort -rg | awk '{ numBytes = $1 * 1024; numUnits = split("B K M G T P", unit); num = numBytes; iUnit = 0; while(num >= 1024 && iUnit + 1 < numUnits) { num = num / 1024; iUnit++; } $1 = sprintf( ((num == 0) ? "%6d%s " : "%6.1f%s "), num, unit[iUnit + 1]); print $0; }' | |
| # Thanks to answer here at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4681/how-do-you-sort-du-output-by-size |
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