Re: RFC: do you use du --bytes (-b) [Re: 'du -b' bug in fileutils-4.1

[David Eisner]

On 20 Feb 2003, Paul Eggert wrote:

> David Eisner <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I was using du to get a sense of whether an rsync operation between
> > two hosts was successful.
...
> Perhaps if we changed 'du' to ignore directory sizes; but this is
> sounding more and more like a special case just for you.

I agree.  As I was telling Jim, I think I was using the wrong tool for the
job.  And yes, I had the problem you described.  For example, on Solaris
(ufs filesystem), empty directories are 512 bytes long, while on Cygwin +
NTFS, they're 0 bytes.

I just wrote a simple perl script to add up the (logical) sizes of
regular files, and that worked well enough for my purposes.

-David


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