Mike Frysinger wrote on 20-02-08 23:18:
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
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 .)
This can hardly be the answer, can it?
This is with * . and . * respectively:
sorry, i thought he was comparing "*" and ".", not "." and "* ."
-mike
That's what I guessed, no biggie.
Still, I cannot still quite fathom the difference
I am getting with * . and . * , even given that
there's a hard link in one of the subdirectries.
bjd
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