Sort folders by size

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It seems like many people don't know about some new flags for du and sort.

Code: summarize target size
  1. du --summarize /path/to/target

The --summarize flag shows the total size of target only.

Code: Sort human readable numbers
  1. sort -h

-h will sort like -n but supports suffixes like 14K.

Code: Sort folder content by size
  1. du -h --summarize /path/to/target/* | sort -h
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