[geeks] find - having a senior moment

[der Mouse]

> du -b reports in bytes

To the extent that there is a single "du" thing, this is false.  Two
NetBSD systems I spot-checked return "du: unknown option -- b" and a
usage line when I try to use du -b.

> See: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?du

Based on the preponderance of "--"-prefixed options, and the REPORTING
BUGS, COPYRIGHT, and SEE ALSO sections, I'd say that is for a GNU
version of du, and thus it is incorrect to speak of it as "du" as if
there were only one thing by that name, absent (as here) a GNU-specific
context (an example of such context might be discussing a problem
encountered on a GNU-userland-using Linux distro).  I went back and
reread the thread-starting post, and I see no indication of the OS in
question except by implication in the presence of find and ls.

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