GNU bug report logs - #20277
du wild card not working

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Gert Pellin <gert <at> gepe-biljarts.be>

Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 22:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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bug#20277; Package coreutils. (Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:54:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Gert Pellin <gert <at> gepe-biljarts.be>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: du wild card not working
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:42:32 +0200

On stack exchange someone reported a bug today, after manually updating 
du -sh * gives errors on all his computers. Is this a bug? On my system 
with coreutils 8.21 it is still working normally.
-- 
best regards
Gert Pellin

ps: the original report: 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194906/whats-the-new-wild-card-symbol-for-the-du-command
Information forwarded to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org:
bug#20277; Package coreutils. (Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:20:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 20277 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Gert Pellin <gert <at> gepe-biljarts.be>, 20277 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20277: du wild card not working
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:19:49 -0600

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On 04/07/2015 02:42 PM, Gert Pellin wrote:
> On stack exchange someone reported a bug today, after manually updating
> du -sh * gives errors on all his computers. Is this a bug? On my system
> with coreutils 8.21 it is still working normally.

Not a bug, but a FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#How-do-I-remove-files-that-start-with-a-dash_003f

Most likely, he is running the command in a directory that contains a
filename starting with a dash, and both 'du -sh -- *' and 'du -sh ./*'
serve to suppress treating that leading dash as an invalid option name.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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bug closed, send any further explanations to 20277 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Gert Pellin <gert <at> gepe-biljarts.be> Request was from Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:21:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 06 May 2015 11:24:06 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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