Re: du reports different results for "."

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote on 20-02-08 21:56:
> > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Richard Ems wrote:
> >> If I do a "du -s * ." and right afterwards "du -s ." I get different
> >> values for the actual directory ".".
> >
> > the * globa does not match the . directory.  it matches all the files as
> > expanded by the shell (which does not include the . directory nor any
> > file that starts with a .)
>
> This can hardly be the answer, can it?
> This is with * .  and  . * respectively:

sorry, i thought he was comparing "*" and ".", not "." and "* ."
-mike

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