On 1/22/19 2:40 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
This sounds to me as if you wanted 'du' to read() the content of each file to get the 'correct' statistics. That is more in the domain of wc(1).
du already has an --apparent-size option that gives the same size that 'read' would give. As I understand it, this part of the request was to change the (arguably confusing) name of this option to a different (and also arguably confusing :-) name. As the option name has been that way for quite some time and the proposed name is not that much less confusing than the old, I think we'll stand pat.
