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Old 04-21-2005, 05:37 PM   #1
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Sorting by directory size

I have a bunch of media directories/folders in a directory called Content - is there a way to sort the Content directories by size?
 
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du -sm Content/* | sort -g


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Old 04-21-2005, 10:29 PM   #3
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that the greatest ! I clicked thx, but thx!
 
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