On 14/3/18 7:19 am, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 13/3/18 9:05 am, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/13/18 05:47, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/13/18 05:20, Stephen Morris wrote:
Thanks Ed, I'll check the doco out, I was just expecting the
command to do exactly
what the help info said, output the information for all files, not
just a subset.
It *does* do exactly what the man page says. You just have to
understand the
"context" in which it is saying it.
Let me complete my thought. Even take the "ls" command as an example.
[egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ ls
test test1 test2
[egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ ls -a
. .. test test1 test2 .test3 .test4 .test5
[egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ ls *
test test1 test2
[egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ shopt -s dotglob
[egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ ls *
test test1 test2 .test3 .test4 .test5
Oh, when it comes to ls, I've been gently reminded about -A
[egreshko@meimei test-dir]$ ls -A
test test1 test2 .test3 .test4 .test5
Thanks Ed, I knew about the differences between the -a and -A on ls,
and having had a look at the --help for ls and du again, I can see the
subtle difference between the -a parameters on both commands. It just
seems counter intuitive to me to have to issue another command (even
if one knows of its existence) to get a command to function "properly".
I'm now completely confused. The command du -abh /home/steve/workspace
is now displaying the information directories beginning with a '.' and
at least some files beginning with a '.' without having issued the shopt
command.
regards,
Steve
regards,
Steve
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