Bob Proulx wrote: > Alan Curry wrote: > > Why not let the -c total be correct *and* the -s individual numbers also be > > correct for the names they are next to? Like this: > > > > $ mkdir a b ; echo hello > a/a ; ln a/a b/b ; du -cs a b > > 8 a > > 8 b > > 12 total > > > > The fact that the numbers on the left don't add up means there is less > > redundancy in the output. Each number actually tells me something you can't > > derive from the others. There is higher information content. This is good, > > not bad. > > I like this idea. +1
I also like the idea, but is there already consensus on the starting question: what to do with - I call it - stacked arguments? $ mkdir -p d/d $ echo foo > d/f $ echo bar > d/d/g $ ln d/f d/d/f $ du -s d d/d I omitted the result, but I think Paul's question is the important one: "how much disk space I'll reclaim by removing ..." Therefore, and from a user's perspective, I'd expect du to count d/d again for the sum of the first argument d. Is this covered by the proposal? What would be the output for the above example? Have a nice day, Berny
