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Re: options to retire?


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: options to retire?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:28:15 -0700
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> du's -m doesn't provoke a diagnostic, so I'll add one
> and push the removal date to 2006.

This the only change you mentioned that I have any qualms about.
FreeBSD's du has -m, and I found a reasonable number of people
suggesting and/or using "du -m":

http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_31.html
http://aaltonen.us/archive/2003/03/26/
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/oxblood/Linux_Doc.txt
http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/courses/Bio-Linux/Bio-Linux_Aug2003/advanced_bio-linux_CLI_ps_etc.pdf
http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Computing/files.html

So we might be stuck with it.




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