Multiple dirs in --ignore-dirs not working as expected about dua-cli HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks a lot for letting me know!

Indeed, it doesn't seem to work at all and I could reproduce it well. If it's that broken, and was at some point deemed working, maybe a test is missing for it as well.

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I've never tried ignore before with dua so do not know if it ever worked :). Thanks for looking into it!

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@edrozenberg This looks to work as expected. To pass multiple ignore directories you have to specify them separately, like this:

dua -i /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes -i /System/Volumes/Data interactive /

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@edrozenberg This looks to work as expected. To pass multiple ignore directories you have to specify them separately, like this:

dua -i /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes -i /System/Volumes/Data interactive /

Thanks but this does not work as expected, still getting an incorrect double-counted result:

sudo dua -i /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes -i /System/Volumes/Data interactive /

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I think I know where this bug is coming from. Try this instead:

sudo dua -i System/Volumes/Data/Volumes -i System/Volumes/Data interactive /

dua doesn't include the starting / in the path which was causing your ignored directories not to match. However on my mac dua still shows incorrect results - but probably for a different reason.

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I think I know where this bug is coming from. Try this instead:

sudo dua -i System/Volumes/Data/Volumes -i System/Volumes/Data interactive /

dua doesn't include the starting / in the path which was causing your ignored directories not to match. However on my mac dua still shows incorrect results - but probably for a different reason.

Thanks this seems to work fine, but it shouldn't because if I don't include the / for each path it should not find them if my current directory is not in the root of the drive. But it does find them somehow. [edit] I see it finds them based on the starting directory given, /.

[~]$ sudo dua -i System/Volumes/Data/Volumes -i System/Volumes/Data interactive /

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Thanks everyone for chiming in and for helping to solve this puzzle!

I can confirm that sudo dua -i System/Volumes/Data/Volumes -i System/Volumes/Data interactive / works for me.

I think in order to resolve this, dua should properly transform the paths to the format that it needs to make them work for it. That way, -i target/ , -i $PWD/target or -i target/ will all work the same.

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This should be fixed with the latest release, and I wasn't able to reproduce the issue anymore with the new version either.

Please let us know if the issue persists.

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