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I'd like to see how big all the files/directories starting with a '.' in my
home directory are, please.

earle@pulsar:~$ du -h \.*
4.0K    ./Mail
12K     ./.ssh
104K    ./photos/test
...

Whoa, hold on, "Mail" doesn't begin with a dot. Stop that. Okay, try
again. Maybe I need to quote the dot, or something.

earle@pulsar:~$ du -h '.'*
4.0K    ./Mail
12K     ./.ssh
104K    ./photos/test
...

Okay, that's not it. What does a simple listing do?

earle@pulsar:~$ du -h
4.0K    ./Mail
12K     ./.ssh
1.3M    ./photos/test
19M     ./photos
12K     ./.mozilla/firefox/nx0jka40.slt/chrome
...

Well, that's matching... something. I don't understand the sorting order.
Out of curiosity, let's see what happens if we throw in a wildcard.

earle@pulsar:~$ du -h *
8.0K    Calendar
2.5M    Desktop
1.6M    Incomplete
4.0K    Mail
36K     accounts
...

What the hell? Asterisk isn't matching '.'? Gah. I don't care any more.



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Earle Martin
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• du Earle Martin 00:01 on 30 Sep 2005
  • Re: du Dave Vandervies 00:20 on 30 Sep 2005
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  • Abigail 00:25 on 30 Sep 2005
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  • Juerd 00:26 on 30 Sep 2005
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  • A. Pagaltzis 00:57 on 30 Sep 2005
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  • =?iso-8859-1?b?U+liYXN0aWVu?= Aperghis-Tramoni 10:06 on 30 Sep 2005
    • too deep to show
  • Earle Martin 18:52 on 30 Sep 2005
  • Smylers 09:07 on 01 Oct 2005
• Re: du Aaron Crane 17:28 on 30 Sep 2005
  • A. Pagaltzis 18:37 on 30 Sep 2005
  • Peter da Silva 22:17 on 30 Sep 2005
  • Smylers 00:30 on 01 Oct 2005
    • too deep to show
• Peter da Silva 22:27 on 30 Sep 2005
• A. Pagaltzis 12:24 on 01 Oct 2005
• Peter da Silva 13:17 on 01 Oct 2005

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