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Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash |
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Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:31:51 -0700 |
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According to Pádraig Brady on 3/7/2008 10:01 AM:
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| So does that mean we should be stripping trailing /
| from directories that are specified?
|
| $ du -s /tmp////
| 8040 /tmp////
|
| I think adding a / to all dirs is therefore more consistent
| as well as providing more info to the user.
I think that it is more consistent to treat du like find, since both do
recursion, and here's what the POSIX folks had to say about find and
trailing slashes:
https://www.opengroup.org/austin/interps/uploads/40/14959/AI-186.txt
In short, if the trailing slash was present on the command line, it is
present in the output. But when recursing, since readdir() does not add
trailing slashes, neither should the utility that is visiting files
recursively. So only arguments given on the command line will end in slashes.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Thomas Guettler, 2008/03/06
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Jim Meyering, 2008/03/06
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Pádraig Brady, 2008/03/06
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Pádraig Brady, 2008/03/07
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Thomas Guettler, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Pádraig Brady, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Jim Meyering, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Pádraig Brady, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Thomas Guettler, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Pádraig Brady, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Pádraig Brady, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Jim Meyering, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash, Thomas Guettler, 2008/03/12