On Mon Jan 16 12:46:42 EST 2012, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:13:49AM -0500, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > > > > My guess would be that this discussion illustrates exactly why: ls(1) is > > a gadget that pretty-prints the directory entry. Extending it with '-R' > > would require it to learn about possibly-circular mount points; yuck. > > On the other hand, du(1) has this sort of feature as its raison d'ĂȘtre. > > And as my blunders have shown, du(1) tries but does not succeed.
you got the correct answer to the "wrong" question. that's not du's fault. and changing the name of the program to "ls" will not change the behavior. - erik