Re: du reports different results for "."

[Bauke Jan Douma]

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 .)
> -mike

This can hardly be the answer, can it?
This is with * .  and  . * respectively:

/usr/src/linux >  du -s * .
20      COPYING
92      CREDITS
10892   Documentation
4       Kbuild
92      MAINTAINERS
52      Makefile
292     Module.symvers
20      README
4       REPORTING-BUGS
984     System.map
75136   arch
844     block
4484    crypto
169076  drivers
53780   fs
43948   include
424     init
428     ipc
5412    kernel
2588    lib
0       make.res
3124    make.res.3621
4       make.res.4036
2584    mm
39624   net
2672    scripts
1160    security
23508   sound
3692    usr
5404    vmlinux
6500    vmlinux.o
471956  .               <--

/usr/src/linux > du -s . *
474044  .               <--
20      COPYING
92      CREDITS
10892   Documentation
4       Kbuild
92      MAINTAINERS
52      Makefile
292     Module.symvers
20      README
4       REPORTING-BUGS
984     System.map
73048   arch            <-- ?
844     block
4484    crypto
169076  drivers
53780   fs
43948   include
424     init
428     ipc
5412    kernel
2588    lib
0       make.res
3124    make.res.3621
4       make.res.4036
2584    mm
39624   net
2672    scripts
1160    security
23508   sound
3692    usr
5404    vmlinux
6500    vmlinux.o

/usr/src/linux > du -s arch
75136   arch