NAME

hsort - sort "human readable" numbers

SYNOPSIS

hsort [-r] [-s] [-f FIELD|-k FIELD] [-d DELIM] [FILE]

OPTIONS

-f

sort by field FIELD instead of field 1 (the first in a line)

-k

sort by field FIELD instead of field 1 (the first in a line), this options takes precedence if both (-f and -k) are given.

-d

use delimiter DELIM instead of white space, perl regexps are accepted, i.e [:;] for splitting fields by colons or semicolons.

-r

reverse sort, i.e. descending order

-s

print sum of all values in FIELD at the end

EXAMPLES

  # du -sh /home/* | hsort -r | less

The 15 biggest files in a directory:

  $ ls -lh | tail +2 | \        # strip 'Total: 1234' line
             hsort -k 5 | tail -n 15

NOTES

While sorting, each item is tested if it's numerical. If it's not, string comparison (cmp) is used instead of number comparison (<=>).

The summary (-s) option is ignored for non numerical fields... if the field contains both (some items numerical, some not) only the numerical fields are added.

DOWNLOAD

http://ankh-morp.org/code/misc/hsort.pl

AUTHOR

Hanno Hecker <vetinari@ankh-morp.org>