du skip symbolic links The default behavior of `du` on my system is not the proper default behavior. If I `ls` my `/data` folder, I see (removing the stuff that isn't important): ghs ghsb -> ghs hope rssf -> roper roper Inside each folder is a set of folders with numbers as names. I want to get the total size of all folders named `14`, so I use: du -s /data/*/14 And I see... 161176 /data/ghs/14 161176 /data/ghsb/14 8 /data/hope/14 681564 /data/rssf/14 681564 /data/roper/14 What I want is only: 161176 /data/ghs/14 8 /data/hope/14 681564 /data/roper/14 I do not want to see the symbolic links. I've tried `-L`, `-D`, `-S`, etc. I always get the symbolic links. Is there a way to remove them?

This isn't `du` resolving the symbolic links; it's your shell.

`*` is a shell glob; it is expanded by the shell before running any command. Thus in effect, the command you're running is:


du -s /data/ghs/14 /data/ghsb/14 /data/hope/14 /data/rssf/14 /data/roper/14


If your shell is bash, you don't have a way to tell it not to expand symlinks. However you can use `find` (GNU version) instead:


find /data -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -name 14 -exec du -s {} +