Package: coreutils Version: 8.32-4.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Quoth du(1):
-d, --max-depth=N
print the total for a directory (or file, with --all) only if it
is N or fewer levels below the command
line argument; --max-depth=0 is the same as --summarize
But:
$ du -as /dev/null
du: cannot both summarize and show all entries
Try 'du --help' for more information.
$ du -ad0 /dev/null
0 /dev/null
$ du -sd0 /dev/null
du: warning: summarizing is the same as using --max-depth=0
0 /dev/null
$ du -ss /dev/null
0 /dev/null
The -as invocation is as-expected (and even matches POSIX!).
The -ad0 one isn't: it should error the same way as -as.
The -sd0 one isn't either: ex def. if it's the same then it should be
equivalent to -ss (which, as expected, is equivalent to just -s).
A solution would be to either
(a) make it /actually/ be -s, matching the documentation, or
(b) stop lying in the documentation.
Best,
наб
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