Re: du reports different results for "."

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Mike Frysinger wrote on 20-02-08 23:18:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger wrote on 20-02-08 21:56:
> > > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Richard Ems wrote:
> > > > If I do a "du -s * ." and right afterwards "du -s ." I get different
> > > > values for the actual directory ".".
> > > the * globa does not match the . directory.  it matches all the files as
> > > expanded by the shell (which does not include the . directory nor any
> > > file that starts with a .)
> > This can hardly be the answer, can it?
> > This is with * .  and  . * respectively:
>
> sorry, i thought he was comparing "*" and ".", not "." and "* ."
> -mike

That's what I guessed, no biggie.

Still, I cannot still quite fathom the difference
I am getting with * . and . * , even given that
there's a hard link in one of the subdirectries.

bjd