[dev] Re: ls -s vs. du

From: Charlie Kester <corky1951_AT_comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:33:52 -0800

On 01/06/2013 04:02 AM, markus schnalke wrote:
> [2013-01-05 18:55] Christoph Lohmann<20h_AT_r-36.net>
>>
>> % ls -hs st-0.3/st
>> 126K st
>
> I wondered why 20h did not use `du -h st-0.3/st' instead.

Perhaps because ls was good enough for making the point that, on his
system (unlike mine), the size increase from st 0.3 to the latest git is
nowhere near 16x?

The exact size of the binary was irrelevant.
The *relative* size was the issue.
Received on Mon Jan 07 2013 - 14:33:52 CET