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		t_hozumi on Nov 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's the one Linux command you wish you knew yea... du -sh ./D* `872K ./Desktop 78M ./Documents 3.2G ./Downloads`

k_bx on Nov 20, 2011 [–]

I would add | sort -h here

brendano on Nov 20, 2011 | [–]

if you don't have "sort -h" (mine doesn't do it), you can also use "du -m", which gives file sizes in megabytes -- pretty reasonable. (then "sort -n")

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