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Monday, 16 December 2013

How to list and sort directories by size in Linux/Unix

Had a brain freeze and forgot how to list all files within a directory and sort by size - google returned me this awesome gem:
du -k | sort -nr | more

Or human readable output:
du -sh

http://snippets.aktagon.com/snippets/86-how-to-list-and-sort-directories-by-size-in-linux-unix
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