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How can I use du -h to sort the displayed files and directories in ascending order of size?

kos
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  • If you don't need to recursively list all files in the current working directory, also simply ls -Sr / ls -lSr (with the caveat that all directories would be listed as 4096...) – kos May 03 '24 at 07:08

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You can pipe | the output of du's -h, --human-readable to sort's -h, --human-numeric-sort for human format numerical based sorting like:

du -h | sort -h

... and descending by adding sort's -r, --reverse like:

du -h | sort -rh
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