Eric Blake wrote: > I don't think you can do it by default - it must be via an option. POSIX > states: > > ~ The output from du shall consist of the amount of space allocated to a > file and the name of the file, in the following format: > > ~ "%d %s\n", <size>, <pathname> > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/du.html > (where ' ' implies an arbitrary amount of whitespace characters). > > I don't think we can arbitrarily add / to <pathname> and still comply with > POSIX.
So does that mean we should be stripping trailing / from directories that are specified? $ du -s /tmp//// 8040 /tmp//// I think adding a / to all dirs is therefore more consistent as well as providing more info to the user. I understand the need to comply with POSIX where possible, but one needs to use common sense to move forward. POSIX is not the be all and end all. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
