Details
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Task
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Mesosphere Sprint 27
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2
Description
Since du --exclude uses pattern matching. A relative path might accidentally matches an irrelevant directory/file. For instance,
/tmp/testpath $ tree
.
├── aaa
│ └── exc
│ └── file
└── exc
└── file
3 directories, 2 files
/tmp/testpath $ du --exclude /tmp/testpath/exc /tmp/testpath/
8 /tmp/testpath/aaa/exc
12 /tmp/testpath/aaa
16 /tmp/testpath/
/tmp/testpath $ du --exclude exc /tmp/testpath/
4 /tmp/testpath/aaa
8 /tmp/testpath/
/tmp/testpath $