Unexpected side effect of -b option in du

Evin Yulo yujiri at disroot.org
Mon Sep 26 11:53:19 UTC 2022


The -b option to busybox's du seems to have an unexpected side effect of changing the default unit from kilobytes to bytes. Is this intended? If so, why?

Also, the option is not listed in the syntax synopsis, `Usage: du [-aHLdclsxhmk] [FILE]...`, in --help output.


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