Using the following one-liner, get a human-friendly overview of the size of the files and directories in the current directory, sorted by size.
du -d1 . | sort -n | xargs -I myline python -c "from math import log;ss='myline'.split();n=int(ss[0]);k=1024.;d=int(log(n)/log(k));print '{:10.2f} {}B\t{}'.format(n/k**d, ['K','M','G','T','P'][d], ' '.join(ss[1:]))"