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
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