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I'd like to be able to sort the output of "du -ah /" --exclude=/tmp >> files.txt" by filename, not by size. How can this be done on Linux? I'm comparing files on two different servers and then using a diff program to see the differences.

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This will get a list of all files recursively, and output them to a file named "files.txt". The goal is to sort the files by filename for two systems and then compare every file using a diff tool (ie: TortoiseSVN Diff). Without sorting the list, it will be more difficult to see what files are different.

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Try issuing du -ah / --exclude=/tmp | sort -k 2 >> files.txt

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