sort du -sh by size in human readable

with the command

du -sh *

I get the summary of files in MB,GB, etc. If I use

du -s * | sort -nk1

I get the summary sort by size.
How I can get the summary sort by size in MB, GB, etc?

Edit

the OS is ubuntu

1 Answer

If you're using GNU sort, try the following:

du -sh * | sort -hk1,1