From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] du vs. ls: duplication or not?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:06:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c01ad724f40c14fbdf63962e7d827e2@chula.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120116174318.GA382@polynum.com>
On Mon Jan 16 12:46:42 EST 2012, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:13:49AM -0500, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> >
> > My guess would be that this discussion illustrates exactly why: ls(1) is
> > a gadget that pretty-prints the directory entry. Extending it with '-R'
> > would require it to learn about possibly-circular mount points; yuck.
> > On the other hand, du(1) has this sort of feature as its raison d'être.
>
> And as my blunders have shown, du(1) tries but does not succeed.
you got the correct answer to the "wrong" question. that's not
du's fault. and changing the name of the program to "ls" will not
change the behavior.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-16 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-14 8:01 tlaronde
2012-01-14 9:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-01-15 16:18 ` tlaronde
2012-01-15 21:17 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 11:46 ` tlaronde
2012-01-16 16:13 ` Joel C. Salomon
2012-01-16 17:43 ` tlaronde
2012-01-16 18:06 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-01-14 9:45 ` David du Colombier
2012-01-14 13:23 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 7:39 arnold
2012-01-16 11:55 ` tlaronde
2012-01-16 13:21 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 13:24 ` erik quanstrom
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