[debbugs-tracker] bug#15423: closed (error while executing du -shc)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: error while executing du -shc Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:28:09 +0530

Hi,

I am getting the following error while executing the following command:

 [/home]# du -shc *

du: invalid option -- r

du: invalid option -- w

du: invalid option -- -

du: invalid option -- r

du: invalid option -- -

du: invalid option -- -

du: invalid option -- r

du: invalid option -- -

du: invalid option -- -

Try `du --help' for more information.

[/home]# cat /etc/redhat-release 

CloudLinux Server release 5.9 (Sergey Oleynikov)

Please help me.

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AJEESH B KANNAN

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#15423: error while executing du -shc Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:17:10 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130805 Thunderbird/17.0.8

tag 15423 notabug
thanks

On 09/20/2013 06:58 AM, Ajeesh B Kannan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am getting the following error while executing the following command:
> 
>  [/home]# du -shc *

You have a file in your current directory with a name beginning with -.

The usual solutions to this are:

du -shc ./*

or

du -shc -- *

either of which forces the glob to no longer be interpreted as options
(the former by guaranteeing no leading - in file names, the latter by
telling du the end of options and start of filenames).

> 
> Please help me.
> 

This is a FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#I-have-a-file-_0027_002df_0027-and-it-affects-rm_002e

I'm closing this as not a bug, but feel free to ask more questions in
this thread as needed.

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