Comment by alloyed

the point is well-taken, but i do want to show the bash version just for fun:

    podman image ls --all | sed 's/\s\s\+/\t/g' | tee >(head -n 1) >(tail -n +2 | sort -hrk 5) >/dev/null

this is _still_ all text, and we're relying heavily on sort to do a bunch of internal parsing and be in agreement with podman about how sizes should be formatted. also, for "real world" work, i dunno if the tee trick here has any kind of order guarantees, just that it works fine in this case. I'd probably just end up dropping the header and living with worse output in reality