Unexpected side effect of -b option in du

Jeff Pohlmeyer yetanothergeek at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 19:15:27 UTC 2022


On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 2:03 PM Xabier Oneca -- xOneca <xoneca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> coreutils' du --help says:
>
>   -b, --bytes           equivalent to '--apparent-size --block-size=1'
>


The long help in busybox says:

-b    Apparent size (including holes)


This would make it more clear, and still brief:

-b    Apparent size in bytes (including holes)


 - Jeff


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