Re: du

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: du
Date: 20:07 on 30 Sep 2005
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> 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?

No, you're not.  I'm not actually a sysadmin any more (instead, I'm
trying to write software for sysadmins), so I don't use 'du' any more,
which means I haven't used that alias in three years.  I'm sure it
started out with sudo on the right side, but somehow got retardedly on
the wrong side.

You are correct; the du needs the sudo, and the sort obviously does not.

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