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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:25:13AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Indeed, Mail doesn't start with a dot. But it doesn't list Mail, does it?
> It lists "./Mail", as it's an entry in ".", which does match ".*".
I think that's the hatefulness here. du is "helpfully" prepending ./ to
everything in the cwd, unlike pretty much every other program in the
universe [1], making life difficult.
[1] find comes immediately to mind, but find's interface isn't exactly a
ringing endorsement of anything except more hate.
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You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you
with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
-- Jayne Cobb, "Firefly"
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