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du --summarize prunes subdirectories from output.

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From: Michaël Cadilhac <michael <at> cadilhac.name>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: du --summarize prunes subdirectories from output.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 14:11:27 +0530

Hi there;

The --summarize option of du(1) states:
              display only a total for each argument
Thus I'm assuming that whatever the number of arguments, I'll obtain
an equal number of outputs.  However:

$ mkdir -p a/b
$ du -s a a/b
0       a
$

It is either a bug of du or of its man.

Thanks!
M.

Technical details: du (GNU coreutils) 8.24 on
Arch Linux 4.1.12-1-lts #1 SMP Tue Oct 27 17:21:25 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Michaël Cadilhac <michael <at> cadilhac.name>,
 21926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21926: du --summarize prunes subdirectories from output.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:52:21 +0000

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On 15/11/15 08:41, Michaël Cadilhac wrote:
> Hi there;
> 
> The --summarize option of du(1) states:
>               display only a total for each argument
> Thus I'm assuming that whatever the number of arguments, I'll obtain
> an equal number of outputs.  However:
> 
> $ mkdir -p a/b
> $ du -s a a/b
> 0       a
> $
> 
> It is either a bug of du or of its man.

Yes it's not ideal. For details see:
http://bugs.gnu.org/17546

thanks,
Pádraig

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From: Michaël Cadilhac <michael <at> cadilhac.name>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: 21926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21926: du --summarize prunes subdirectories from output.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:22:29 +0530

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 15/11/15 08:41, Michaël Cadilhac wrote:

>> $ mkdir -p a/b
>> $ du -s a a/b
>> 0       a
>> $
>>
>> It is either a bug of du or of its man.
>
> Yes it's not ideal.

Thanks for the pointer.  Is it conceivable to separate the behaviors
of --summarize and of --max-depth=0?  After all, I'm expecting some
things to be stripped out with --max-depth=0, but certainly not with
--summarize (based on the man). This would require to store the size
of every dev,ino pair, though.

M.

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