Miguel Barão wrote: > This not a bug but rather an inconsistent output between these two du > options, > which is not documented in the manpages. > > Suppose 'somefile' is a file containing a lot of zeros. > > Then I get: > $ du -k somefile > 12 > $ du somefile > 12 > $ du -b somefile > 4194432 > > It seems that du -b is returning the size of the file, and not the "disk > usage" of that file.
Yes, as that is what is usually required. This is documented at least since 5.2.1 in the man page (--help output) du -b ≡ du --apparent-size --block-size=1 you want to use du --block-size=1 Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
