Hello again,
Well: I should have checked more closely before posting. Mea culpa ;-)
But after 10+ hours of work that's not so easy anymore.
In any case: the problem was, as many of you guessed correctly, an
alias of
du='du -sk'
Though this was rather unexpected for me because I was logged in as root
on this particular machine and root had /bin/ksh as the default shell
rather than /bin/sh which is what I usually have. I use to advocate
against changing the root account's shell and I did not expect that
someone did not follow my recommendations :-)
So thanks for the following people for their really quick replies
(sorry if I forgot anyone):
Nestor Ruiz <nruiz_at_hermes.bvl.com.pe>
Mike Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu>
Pirie Hart <pirie_at_u.washington.edu>
Richard Rogers <R.M.Rogers_at_staffs.ac.uk>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
Paul A Sand <pas_at_unh.edu>
Gyula Szokoly <szgyula_at_tarkus.pha.jhu.edu>
Matthias Dolder <Matthias.Dolder_at_digital.com>
Richard Bemrose <rb237_at_phy.cam.ac.uk>
Mireille BOF <Mireille.BOF_at_univ-nancy2.fr>
"Degerness, Mandell ITSD:EX" <Mandell.Degerness_at_gems2.gov.bc.ca>
Thanks again // Tom
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