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

[Bob Proulx]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "karl s. eiringer" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > (it seems that original is excluded first, but '*' includes the
> > directories [original + subdirs] again)
> 
> Yes, that's right.  The documentation says that --exclude applies only
> when recursing; it doesn't apply to the top-level command-line
> arguments.

Hmm...  Does that mean that there is a bug in the current version?  Or
that there is not?  I'm confused.  I was able to reproduce the case
using the fileutils-4.1 du.

  du --version
  du (fileutils) 4.1
  du -skc --exclude=b *
  8       a
  8       b
  8       c
  8       d
  32      total

It seems things are "as desired" in the current version.

  du --version
  du (coreutils) 5.2.1
  du -skc --exclude=b *
  4       a
  4       c
  4       d
  12      total

Bob