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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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