Unexpected side effect of -b option in du

[Xabier Oneca -- xOneca]

Hi Evin,

The -b option to busybox's du seems to have an unexpected side effect of
> changing the default unit from kilobytes to bytes. Is this intended? If so,
> why?
>

coreutils' du --help says:

  -b, --bytes           equivalent to '--apparent-size --block-size=1'

So this seems pretty deliberate... ;)


> Also, the option is not listed in the syntax synopsis, `Usage: du
> [-aHLdclsxhmk] [FILE]...`, in --help output.
>

Yes, that may be a (little) bug. It is present in the full usage, but
missing in the trivial one.

Cheers,

Xabier Oneca_,,_
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