[ale] Re: du help?

[Geoffrey]

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> Look more closely and see the "-m" at the end. That requests that the size be 
> reported in Mega Bytes. Directories with nothing in them were reported as "1"

$ du -s /home/user/* /home/user/.??* > /data/3.txt -m

Dude, your '-m' is on the otherside of the '>' which means du never sees 
it.   You would need to do the following to achieve this effect:

$ du -m -s /home/user/* /home/user/.??* > /data/3.txt


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