Ricky Tigg <[email protected]> [2021-07-04 16:54:04 +0300]:
> *OS:* Fedora; Tested in Bash v.5.1.
>
> Hello. Task: Printing total size of files *alone*.
> To reproduce:
>
> $ stat -c '%i %h %s %n %F' k l
> 4198568 2 34 k regular file
> 4198568 2 34 l regular file
>
> $ find . -type f
> ./k
> ./l
>
> Those 'du' commands cover only one file instead of all files.
>
> $ find . -type f -exec du -acb {} +
> 34 ./k
> 34 total
>
> $ find . -type f -print0 | du --files0-from=- -cb
> 34 ./k
> 34 total
>
> Isn't rather *68* expected?
You probably want to specify --count-links if you want hardlinked files
(like your example k and l) to be considered by du as separate files:
$ echo foo > k
$ ln k l
$ du -c k l
4 k
4 total
$ du -c --count-links k l
4 k
4 l
8 total
