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
> > > 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

No, it ain't.  He told it to report on anything beginning with a dot, of
which . is one such directory entry.  du by default reports on the
directory you tell it to *and everything in it*, hence ./Mail, ./.ssh,
and so on.

If you just want . then use -s.

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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
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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
    • Aaron J. Grier 20:01 on 30 Sep 2005
      • too deep to show

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