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		bajsejohannes on Oct 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacking ls -l This works with sorting, and it's easier to pick big files out at a glance. I would use this as often as -h

cheald on Oct 13, 2012 | [–]

`ls -lhS` works just fine to sort with human-readable sizes, at least on Fedora.

runejuhl on Oct 14, 2012 | [–]

You could also use 'ls -lh | sort -h'.

sliverstorm on Oct 14, 2012 | [–]

I believe that's only supported in newer versions of sort.

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