GNU bug report logs - #21926
du --summarize prunes subdirectories from output.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Michaël Cadilhac <michael <at> cadilhac.name>

Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 08:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 17546

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 262 days ago.

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