Re: bug in the command "du"

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jochen Röder wrote:

> i've found a bug in the command "du"
>
> When i list recursivly directories and i only want to see the binary 
> count of all files. I become a wrong result. The command e.g. "du -ab" 
> add the bytes from "." in every directory to the result.

This is not a bug. -a is documented to include "all files, not just 
directories"; its purpose is not to alter the reported totals, but to 
show more detail by including an output line for every "file" i.e. 
directory entry, which can be a regular file, directory, symlink etc.

> Or did you have a parameterset to list the bytes only of the files?

Assuming you mean only regular files, there is no option to restrict 
du's output in this way.


Cheers,
Phil