On 04/07/2015 02:42 PM, Gert Pellin wrote: > On stack exchange someone reported a bug today, after manually updating > du -sh * gives errors on all his computers. Is this a bug? On my system > with coreutils 8.21 it is still working normally.
Not a bug, but a FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#How-do-I-remove-files-that-start-with-a-dash_003f Most likely, he is running the command in a directory that contains a filename starting with a dash, and both 'du -sh -- *' and 'du -sh ./*' serve to suppress treating that leading dash as an invalid option name. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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