How can I find only the catalogs and sort them by size

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How can I find only the catalogs and sort them by the size (human-readable).

I tried with

find -type d | xargs du -h | sort -rn

But something goes wrong. And all the time its sorted by the numbers. So it doesn't see the difference between K, M etc.

Then --max-depth=1 is a start when it comes to du. As in: skip find and do du --max-depth=1 -h . | sort -hr (If your tools support the options.) Is that what you are looking for? — Runium, Jan 10 '16 at 20:47

Runium · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-10 21:10:53Z

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You could (perhaps) use:

du --max-depth=1 -h some_target_directory | sort -hr

given the version of the tools has the options available.

To skip the total; something like:

du --max-depth=1 -h some_target_directory | sort -hr | tail -n +2

answered Jan 10 '16 at 21:10

Runium

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