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7 du \- estimate file space usage
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11 PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular expression). The pattern
13 matches any one character, whereas
15 matches any string (composed of zero, one or multiple characters). For
18 will match any files whose names end in
20 Therefore, the command
22 .B du \-\-exclude=\(aq*.o\(aq
24 will skip all files and subdirectories ending in