Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
>> This doesn't seem a particularly satisfying result as it doesn't seem
>> like a reasonable outcome.
>
> Have you looked at the --count-links option?
>
>   -l, --count-links     count sizes many times if hard linked

That goes too far.  What I would naïvely expect is that "du -s a b" and
"du -s a; du -s b" produces the same output.

Andreas.

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