Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > On 29/11/2025 07:35, Collin Funk wrote: >> Here is the FreeBSD commit [1]. >> Aside from FreeBSD compatibility, I also think it makes sense >> because >> 'du' has had -c corresponding to the long option --total since very >> early Fileutils releases. It is in the fileutils-3.13 tarball, but >> has no mention in NEWS. :'( >> [1] >> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/076419d2073e67d516cb96f8b837ac6cfa754624 >> -- 8<-- >> The --total option to 'df' was added in coreutils-7.0 (2008). >> FreeBSD >> 5.3.0 (2004) had the -c option for the same purpose. This long option >> previously had no short option, so this patch adds -c to be compatible >> with FreeBSD. > > > I'm not sure about this. > POSIX/Solaris has -t, FreeBSD/NetBSD has -c
Ah, I looked at the Solaris man page but missed that somehow. > Consequently we didn't pick a corresponding short option. Sure, we can leave it that way. Hopefully if POSIX decides to standardize it they choose -c. Collin
