$ touch aa bb '[ab]*' '[ef]*'
Then this glob obviously displays the matching files (the fact that
there is also a file of that name doesn't come into play):
$ du [ab]*
0 aa
0 bb
This glob doesn't match anything so is passed straight through to du,
which can't find a file of that name
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Smylers wrote:
For example, suppose this directory contents:
$ mkdir new
$ cd new
$ touch aa bb '[ab]*' '[ef]*'
I don't know if that's hateful, but I can definitively state that it's
evil.
--
SCSI is *not* magic. There are fundamental technical reasons
Luke Kanies writes:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Smylers wrote:
For example, suppose this directory contents:
$ mkdir new
$ cd new
$ touch aa bb '[ab]*' '[ef]*'
I don't know if that's hateful, but I can definitively state that it's
evil.
Well I did say that it's a pathological
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:39:55PM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
du -dsk * | sudo sort -n
why do you need to sudo to run sort from a pipe?
sudo du -dsk * | sort -n
I could understand... but there's no reason sort needs to be
priviledged, or am I missing something?
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Aaron J. Grier
Earle Martin skribis 2005-09-30 0:01 (+0100):
I'd like to see how big all the files/directories starting with a '.' in my
home directory are, please.
[...]
What the hell? Asterisk isn't matching '.'? Gah. I don't care any more.
Glob patterns are interpolated by the shell, not the du program
The zsh documentation specifies, that
No filename generation pattern matches the files `.' or `..'.
That's not just hateful, that's utterly evil. Not that I really needed
another reason to hate zsh, of course.
I've got a couple of co-workers who use zsh, and script in it. I
don't have zsh
Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org wrote:
I'd like to see how big all the files/directories starting with a '.' in my
home directory are, please.
I usually use du -hs .??* in order to list all hidden files except
current and parent directories.
HTH
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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Abigail wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:06:26AM +0200, S?bastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
I usually use du -hs .??* in order to list all hidden files except
current and parent directories.
I happen to have a directory .S in my home directory - which would
* Luke Kanies l...@madstop.com [2005-09-30 17:25]:
Because, of course, the above line will result in crap you don't want if
you don't happen to have directories that match your strings:
$ echo .[^.]* ..?*
.svn ..?*
shopt -s nullglob
At least in a vaguely contemporary bash.
* Aaron Crane hate...@aaroncrane.co.uk [2005-09-30 18:30]:
Or if the extensions have more than a single character, bash
lets you do this:
shopt -s extglob # highly recommended anyway
ls *.@(c|cc|cpp|h|o)
On that tangent, trying to get the !() extended pattern to do
what you mean is also
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