Re: du

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:25:25PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:25:13AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> > > earle@pulsar:~$ du -h \.*
> > > 4.0K    ./Mail
> > > 12K     ./.ssh
> > > 104K    ./photos/test
> > > ...
> > >=20
> > > Whoa, hold on, "Mail" doesn't begin with a dot. Stop that. Okay, try
> > > again. Maybe I need to quote the dot, or something.
> >=20
> > Indeed, Mail doesn't start with a dot. But it doesn't list Mail, does i=
t?
> > It lists "./Mail", as it's an entry in ".", which does match ".*".
>=20
> I think that's the hatefulness here.  du is "helpfully" prepending ./ to
> everything in the cwd, unlike pretty much every other program in the=20
> universe [1], making life difficult.

No. 'du' is "helpfully" prepending directories in front of files if
it recurses into directories given on the command line. Since the command
line consists of ".*", "." is one directories ".*" expands to.



Abigail

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• Michael G Schwern 02:25 on 30 Sep 2005
  • A. Pagaltzis 03:01 on 30 Sep 2005
  • Abigail 06:40 on 30 Sep 2005
    • Jonathan Trites 10:21 on 30 Sep 2005
      • too deep to show
  • David Cantrell 13:16 on 30 Sep 2005
• Earle Martin 19:13 on 30 Sep 2005
  • Luke Kanies 19:39 on 30 Sep 2005
    • Aaron J. Grier 20:01 on 30 Sep 2005
      • too deep to show

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