Subject: bug#11526: "du -s . foo bar" only outputs size of first argument -- versions 8.13, 8.16, and 8.17 (latest)

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 00:29:12 -0700

On 05/21/2012 12:24 AM, Chris Marusich wrote:
> $ mkdir foo foo/bar
> $ du foo foo/bar
> 4	foo/bar
> 8	foo
> $ du foo/bar foo
> 4	foo/bar
> 4	foo
> Is this intended?

Wow!  That's a good one.  Yes, the behavior is intended,
though, as I mentioned, there's been some consideration
to adding a flag or two that would generate different
output here.