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bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:13:32 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Alan Curry wrote:
> Why not let the -c total be correct *and* the -s individual numbers also be
> correct for the names they are next to? Like this:
> 
> $ mkdir a b ; echo hello > a/a ; ln a/a b/b ; du -cs a b
> 8       a
> 8       b
> 12      total
> 
> The fact that the numbers on the left don't add up means there is less
> redundancy in the output. Each number actually tells me something you can't
> derive from the others. There is higher information content. This is good,
> not bad.

I like this idea.  +1

Bob





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