On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:27:32 +0000 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 31/01/2022 09:28, chomw...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I've installed coreutils (8.32-4) in my Devuan system. > > > > > > $ echo 'abc' > 3charfile.txt > > > > $ du -h 3charfile.txt > > 4.0K 3charfile.txt > > > > $ du --apparent-size 3charfile.txt > > 1 3charfile.txt > > > > > > $ echo 'abcdefghijkl' > 12charfile.txt > > chomwitt@enous:~/tmp$ wc -c 12charfile.txt > > 13 12charfile.txt > > chomwitt@enous:~/tmp$ du --apparent-size 12charfile.txt > > 1 12charfile.txt > > > > So my question is , shouldnt du report the number of chars=bytes as > > apparent size? > > > > chomwitt > > > > Please see the --bytes option > Thank you. i missed that.
