[Bug 1187044] Re: du command does not work properly

[C de-Avillez]

Actually, the man page does not state that --separete-dirs will only
work on the first level subdirectories. It says:

       -S, --separate-dirs
              do not include size of subdirectories

info coreutils 'du invocation' expands this to:

`-S'
`--separate-dirs'
     Normally, in the output of `du' (when not using `--summarize'),
     the size listed next to a directory name, D, represents the sum of
     sizes of all entries beneath D as well as the size of D itself.
     With `--separate-dirs', the size reported for a directory name, D,
     is merely the `stat.st_size'-derived size of the directory entry,
     D.

So what --separate-dirs does is *not* count the specific directory size
in the total for the directory.

What you want seems to be '--max-depth' (gives totals for directories
down to max-depth from the CWD or provided anchor). For example, 'du
--max-depth=1' will total on the immediate subdirectories from the CWD.

As such, closing INVALID (not a bug).

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  du command does not work properly

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When using the command "du --separate-dirs", subdirectories are still
  included in the results even thought the man page says that they
  should not.

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