Re: du

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* Michael G Schwern <schwern@xxxxx.xxx> [2005-09-30 03:30]:
> du is "helpfully" prepending ./ to everything in the cwd,
> unlike pretty much every other program in the universe [1],
> making life difficult.

du is doing nothing of the sort.

du is seeing the following list of arguments (as an example):

    . .foo .bar .baz

If it recurses into `.foo`, the output will look something like
this:

    .foo/config
    .foo/state
    .foo/log

So obviously, when it recurses into `.`, the output looks like

    ./Mail
    ./.bashrc
    ./.procmailrc

Regards,
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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
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  • David Cantrell 13:16 on 30 Sep 2005
• Earle Martin 19:13 on 30 Sep 2005
  • Luke Kanies 19:39 on 30 Sep 2005
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