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Re: du gives wrong size for symlinks


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: du gives wrong size for symlinks
Date: Fri Oct 18 22:22:02 2002
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Padraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> du (4.1) always says symbolic links are 0 size!
> stat gives the correct answer on ext2 anyway
> (0 if link is 60 chars or less).
> you can test like: ln -sf `seq -w -s "" 1 99` ll

Hi Pádraig!

Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest release:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz




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