Re: du 5.2.1 ignores arguments

[Paul Eggert]

Volker Kuhlmann <address@hidden> writes:

>> du -sk *
> 2       00FILES.du
> 2       00FILES.hlink
> 680     00FILES.long
> 514     00FILES.short
> 2       00FILES.top
> 3096    CDs
> 3407318 src
>
>> du -sk . *
> 3412068 .
> 2       00FILES.du
> 2       00FILES.hlink
> 680     00FILES.long
> 514     00FILES.short
> 2       00FILES.top
> [note the last 2 are missing here!]

I don't get that behavior when I run the following little
test script (coreutils 5.2.1, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1).

   echo foo >00FILES.du
   echo foo >00FILES.hlink
   echo foo >00FILES.long
   echo foo >00FILES.short
   echo foo >00FILES.top
   mkdir CDs src
   echo foo >CDs/foo
   echo foo >src/foo
   du -sk *
   du -sk . *

Can you investigate further why you're seeing the behavior?
What is the output of "echo du -sk . *"?
of "strace du -sk . *"?