GNU bug report logs - #11526
du: hard-links counting with multiple arguments (commit

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 16:57:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 10281, 10282

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 11526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11526: "du -s . foo bar" only outputs size of first argument
	-- versions 8.13, 8.16, and 8.17 (latest)
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.
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