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
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