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This reminds me of a saying I once heard: A computer will do exactly what you tell it to do, which is rarely what you want it to do. Stupid computers. You should just know what I want and automatically do it. On 9/30/05, Abigail <abigail@xxxxxxx.xx> wrote: > 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 > > > > ... > > > > > > > > Whoa, hold on, "Mail" doesn't begin with a dot. Stop that. Okay, tr= y > > > > 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 ./ t= o > > everything in the cwd, unlike pretty much every other program in the > > 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 > > >There's stuff above here
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