What's the difference between this and

du -hd1

Other than that it doesn't work? Or did you mean "du -d --max-depth=1"


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Mark Moorcroft
ELORET Corp. - NASA/Ames RC
Sys. Admin.

Actually I meant "du --max-depth=1 -h"

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Mark Moorcroft
ELORET Corp. - NASA/Ames RC
Sys. Admin.

Actually, the BSD version of du included with Mac OS X doesn't even understand the long --max-depth form. That's a GNU fileutils du thing.

On checking the URL of the site, I see MacOSXHints and not LinuxHints.
(Although Fink and similar might also kindly mess up your system and install GNU fileutils when you don't want it.)

Of course it does work - in Mac OS X Panther 10.3.5, that is.

Is the shorthand form a new feature compared to earlier releases? I doubt that. Perhaps you are using a different version of "du" than the one installed by Apple.

Check that
command -V du
points to /usr/bin/du.