> Ross Boulet wrote: > > > > I saw some old items in the archives (circa 2001) but there > > was not much there about this problem. The most recent > > version of coreutils seems to have broken du. The listing > > below illustrates my point: > > If you have POSIXLY_CORRECT set in your environment then the default > block size for du is 512 bytes, which is what the posix standard > requires. Use -b or -k if you want bytes or kbytes, respectively. > > Brian > >
I do not have POSIXLY_CORRECT set. I tried the -b and -k options. The -b option reports correctly, but the -k still seems to report half. $ ls -l a* -rw-r--r-- 1 rossboulet None 2 Dec 25 17:24 a -rw-r--r-- 1 rossboulet None 3740 Dec 25 10:58 aaa $ du -b a* 2 a 3740 aaa $ du -k a* 1 a 2 aaa -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
