du -sH

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?

11 thoughts on “du -sH

  1. 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 🙂

  2. du on Mac OS X (10.3.7) doesn’t even have the -i option…

    On the other hand, the -H option is (according to the man page):

    -H Symbolic links on the command line are followed, symbolic links in file hierarchies are not followed.

  3. 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…

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