A function for sorting contents of a directory by storage consumed (sorry for lack of comments throughout). I must admit, I’m particularly pleased with this one. (This is for MacOS):

#!/usr/bin/env bash

function szup() {

description=' #: Title: szup #: Synopsis: sort all items within a directory according to size #: Date: 2016-05-30 #: Version: 0.0.5 #: Options: -h | --help: print short usage info #: : -v | --version: print version number '

funcname=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#: Title: ' | sed 's/#: Title: //g') version=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#: Version: ' | sed 's/#: Version: //g') updated="$(echo "$description" | grep '^#: Date: ' | sed 's/#: Date: //g')"

    function usage() {
        printf "\n%s\n" "$funcname : $version : $updated"
        printf "%s\n" ""
    }

    function sortdir() {
        Chars="$(printf "    %s" "inspecting " "$(pwd)" | wc -c)"
        divider=====================
        divider=$divider$divider$divider$divider
        format="    %-${Chars}.${Chars}s %35s\n"
        totalwidth="$(ls -1 | /usr/local/bin/gwc -L)"
        totalwidth=$(echo $totalwidth | grep -o [0-9]\\+)
        Chars=$(echo $Chars | grep -o [0-9]\\+)
        if [ "$totalwidth" -lt "$Chars" ]; then
            longestvar="$Chars"
        else
            longestvar="$totalwidth"
        fi
        shortervar=$(/Users/danyoung/bin/qc "$longestvar"*.8)
        shortervar=$(printf "%1.0f\n" "$shortervar")
        echo "$shortervar"
        printf "\n    %s\n" "inspecting $(pwd)"
        printf "    %$shortervar.${longestvar}s\n" "$divider"
        theOutput="$(du -hs "${theDir}"/* | gsort -hr)"
        Condensed="$(echo -n "$theOutput" | awk '{ print $1","$2 }')"
        unset arr
        declare -a arr
        arr=($(echo "$Condensed"))
        Count="$(echo "$(printf "%s\n" "${arr[@]}")" | wc -l)"
        Count=$((Count-1))
        for i in $(seq 1 $Count); do
        printf "   %5s    %-16s\n" "$var1" "${var2//\/*\//./}"
        done
        echo
    }

    case "$1" in
        -h|--help)
            usage
            return 0
            ;;
        *)
            :
            ;;
    esac

     if [ -z "$1" ]; then
             oldDir="$(pwd)"
             cd "${1}"
             local theDir="$(pwd)"
             sortdir
             cd "$oldDir"
             return 0
     else
            :
             oldDir="$(pwd)"
             cd "${1}"
             local theDir="$(pwd)"
             sortdir
             cd "$oldDir"
             return 0
     fi


}