Hadoop fs -du-h sorting by size for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y - bash

Question

I am running this command --
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -du -h /user | sort -nr
and the output is not sorted in terms of gigs, Terabytes,gb
I found this command -
hdfs dfs -du -s /foo/bar/*tobedeleted | sort -r -k 1 -g | awk '{ suffix="KMGT"; for(i=0; $1>1024 && i < length(suffix); i++) $1/=1024; print int($1) substr(suffix, i, 1), $3; }'
but did not seem to work.
is there a way or a command line flag i can use to make it sort and output should look like--
123T /xyz
124T /xyd
126T /vat
127G /ayf
123G /atd
Please help
regards
Mayur

Answer 1

hdfs dfs -du -h <PATH> | awk '{print $1$2,$3}' | sort -hr
Short explanation:
The hdfs command gets the input data.
The awk only prints the first three fields with a comma in between the 2nd and 3rd.
The -h of sort compares human readable numbers like 2K or 4G, while the -r reverses the sort order.

Answer 2

hdfs dfs -du -h <PATH> | sed 's/ //' | sort -hr
sed will strip out the space between the number and the unit, after which sort will be able to understand it.

Answer 3

This is a rather old question, but stumbled across it while trying to do the same thing. As you were providing the -h (human readable flag) it was converting the sizes to different units to make it easier for a human to read. By leaving that flag off we get the aggregate summary of file lengths (in bytes).
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -du -s '/*' | sort -nr
Not as easy to read but means you can sort it correctly.
See https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/FileSystemShell.html#du for more details.

Answer 4

I would use some small skript. It's primitive but reliable
#!/bin/bash
PATH_TO_FOLDER="$1"
hdfs dfs -du -h $PATH_TO_FOLDER > /tmp/output
cat /tmp/output | awk '$2 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ {print $1,$NF}' | sort -k1,1n
cat /tmp/output | awk ' {if ($2 == "K" ) print $1,$2,$NF}' | sort -k1,1n
cat /tmp/output | awk ' {if ($2 == "M" ) print $1,$2,$NF}' | sort -k1,1n
cat /tmp/output | awk ' {if ($2 == "G" ) print $1,$2,$NF}' | sort -k1,1n
cat /tmp/output | awk ' {if ($2 == "T" ) print $1,$2,$NF}' | sort -k1,1n
rm /tmp/output

Answer 5

Try this to sort hdfs dfs -ls -h /path sort -r -n -k 5
-rw-r--r-- 3 admin admin 108.5 M 2016-05-05 17:23 /user/admin/2008.csv.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 3 admin admin 3.1 M 2016-05-17 16:19 /user/admin/warand_peace.txt
Found 11 items
drwxr-xr-x - admin admin 0 2016-05-16 17:34 /user/admin/oozie-oozi
drwxr-xr-x - admin admin 0 2016-05-16 16:35 /user/admin/Jars
drwxr-xr-x - admin admin 0 2016-05-12 05:30 /user/admin/.Trash
drwxrwxrwx - admin admin 0 2016-05-16 11:21 /user/admin/2015_11_21
drwxrwxrwx - admin admin 0 2016-05-16 11:21 /user/admin/2015_11_20
drwxrwxrwx - admin admin 0 2016-05-16 11:21 /user/admin/2015_11_19
drwxrwxrwx - admin admin 0 2016-05-16 11:21 /user/admin/2015_11_18
drwx------ - admin admin 0 2016-05-16 17:38 /user/admin/.staging