Re: du

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From: Aaron J. Grier
Subject: Re: du
Date: 20:01 on 30 Sep 2005

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:39:55PM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
>     du -dsk * | sudo sort -n

why do you need to sudo to run sort from a pipe?

sudo du -dsk * | sort -n

I could understand...  but there's no reason sort needs to be
priviledged, or am I missing something?

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Luke Kanies 19:39 on 30 Sep 2005
- Aaron J. Grier 20:01 on 30 Sep 2005
  - Luke Kanies 20:07 on 30 Sep 2005

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