List all directories sorted by size in descending order

Question

I have a requirement to sort all directories of current directory in descended order by size.

I tried following

du -sh * | sort -rg

It is listing all the folders by size but it's just listing by size of folder by values. However it's not sorting correcting. 100 MB Dir should be listed before 200KB.

Any help will be appreciable.

Answer 1

I prefer to just go straight to comparing bytes.

du -b * | sort -nr

du -b reports bytes.

sort -n sorts numerically. Obviously, -r reverses.

My /tmp before I clean it -

104857600       wbxtra_RESIDENT_07202018_075931.wbt
815372  wbxtra_RESIDENT_07192018_075744.wbt
215310  Slack Crashes
148028  wbxtra_RESIDENT_07182018_162525.wbt
144496  wbxtra_RESIDENT_07182018_163507.wbt
141688  wbxtra_RESIDENT_07182018_161957.wbt
56617   Notification Cache
20480   ~DFFA6E4895E749B423.TMP
16384   ~DF543949D7B4DF074A.TMP
13254   AdobeARM.log
3614    PhishMeOutlookReporterLoader.log
3448    msohtmlclip1/01
3448    msohtmlclip1
512     ~DF92FFF2C02995D884.TMP
28      ExchangePerflog_8484fa311d504d0fdcd6c672.dat
0       WPDNSE
0       VPMECTMP
0       VBE