Re: [du disk-usage exclude patterns / files]

[karl s. eiringer]

hmm - sorry i passed on the whole thing to debian - cause the stable 
version uses du in version 4.1 which has the bug, the unstable version 
with du in version 5.2 is correct...

sorry to bother you

greetings
karl.

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Bob Proulx wrote:

> karl s. eiringer wrote:
> > i think this could be a bug - could because the man-page doesn't say much
> > about if excluding is done before including, but have a look at this
>
> Thank you for your report.  I tried to reproduce this with the current
> 5.2.1 by this method.
>
>  address@hidden:~$ mkdir /tmp/foo
>  address@hidden:~$ cd /tmp/foo
>  address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ mkdir a b c d
>  address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ for i in a b c d; do echo foo > $i/afile; done
>  address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ find . -print
>  .
>  ./a
>  ./a/afile
>  ./b
>  ./b/afile
>  ./c
>  ./c/afile
>  ./d
>  ./d/afile
>  address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ du -skc --exclude=b
>  12      .
>  12      total
>  address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ du -skc --exclude=b *
>  4       a
>  4       c
>  4       d
>  12      total
>  address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ du -skc --exclude=b* *
>  4       a
>  4       c
>  4       d
>  12      total
>  address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ du --version
>  du (coreutils) 5.2.1
>
> Can you make a small case such as this that illustrates your problem?
> That would really help us to narrow this down.
>
> > address@hidden:# du -ksc --exclude=original* *
> > [...]
> > 6897356 original
> >
> > address@hidden:# du --exclude=original
> > [...]
> > 1615804 .
> >
> > address@hidden:#
>
> What version of du are you using?
>
>  du --version
>
> Bob