sort -h on a Mac
Published: May 30, 2017
du -sh * | sort -hr is my favorite command for quickly looking at how much space directories are taking up on a machine. For example, in the root of a Magento 2 installation you’ll see the following…
$ du -sh * | sort -hr
317M vendor
100M pub
35M dev
25M var
25M lib
19M update
7.5M setup
460K composer.lock
428K CHANGELOG.md
196K app
32K LICENSE_EE.txt
12K phpserver
12K LICENSE_AFL.txt
12K LICENSE.txt
8.0K nginx.conf.sample
8.0K bin
4.0K php.ini.sample
4.0K package.json.sample
4.0K index.php
4.0K composer.json
4.0K README_EE.md
4.0K ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
4.0K Gruntfile.js.sample
4.0K COPYING.txt
4.0K CONTRIBUTING.md
However, if you run this command on a Mac here’s what you’ll get…
$ du -sh * | sort -hr
sort: invalid option -- h
Try `sort --help' for more information.
Fortunately, per this StackExchange answer you can work around this by brew install-ing coreutils.
Doing so, will give you a new executable, gsort, which supports the -h flag.
I’ve added the following alias to my .zshrc so I don’t even have to think about it…
alias sort=gsort
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