On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:01:11AM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > I'd like to see how big all the files/directories starting with a '.' in my > home directory are, please. > > ea...@pulsar:~$ du -h \.* > 4.0K ./Mail > 12K ./.ssh > 104K ./photos/test > ... > > Whoa, hold on, "Mail" doesn't begin with a dot. Stop that. Okay, try > again. Maybe I need to quote the dot, or something.
Indeed, Mail doesn't start with a dot. But it doesn't list Mail, does it? It lists "./Mail", as it's an entry in ".", which does match ".*". > ea...@pulsar:~$ du -h > 4.0K ./Mail > 12K ./.ssh > 1.3M ./photos/test > 19M ./photos > 12K ./.mozilla/firefox/nx0jka40.slt/chrome > ... > > Well, that's matching... something. I don't understand the sorting order. > Out of curiosity, let's see what happens if we throw in a wildcard. Oh, just whatever order readdir is returning. > ea...@pulsar:~$ du -h * > 8.0K Calendar > 2.5M Desktop > 1.6M Incomplete > 4.0K Mail > 36K accounts > ... > > What the hell? Asterisk isn't matching '.'? Gah. I don't care any more. Indeed. The shell doesn't expand '*' to something that starts with a leading dot. If it did, dot-files wouldn't be "hidden". Abigail
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