du -sH “du: WARNING: use –si, not -H; the meaning of the -H option will soon
change to be the same as that of –dereference-args (-D).” Now why on earth would they change that?
du -sH “du: WARNING: use –si, not -H; the meaning of the -H option will soon
change to be the same as that of –dereference-args (-D).” Now why on earth would they change that?
Now, to me, that’s the funniest part. Are they phasing things out and ask you gently to adapt?
I’ve done
du -sHforever, I have no idea why H should mean dereference, which I never use. They already have D for that.they must have a good logical explaination for changing tat. it will be wierd.
Some versions of du already use -H for this (BSD and MacOS, for example). It’s most likely an attempt to unify du across platforms, which is always a good thing.
Of course, you really should use du -sh 🙂
duon Mac OS X (10.3.7) doesn’t even have the-ioption…On the other hand, the
-Hoption is (according to the man page):I wish I knew what these guys are talking about… 🙂
Jonas, maybe the Mac OS version got the –si option? That is, minus minus si.
This was on Gentoo, BTW.
Albert: The
--sioption does indeed exist on Mac OS X, and at a glance does the same as the-Hoption.Maybe this is the same reason nslookup is going away in favor of dig. I was quite fine with nslookup, why they force me to stop using I may never know…
The “H” is for “human interface,” I read.