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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-06-28 13:48:38 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-06-29 07:06:31 +0200
commit5b3adc0d42463cdaf5177908bb434371e01eef96 (patch)
treed7ee11c9793654506efa9e015c69eb13ba96fda6
parent91b7b7cf7efc007ffb3fbc61c3203c8bfcca6cb3 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-5b3adc0d42463cdaf5177908bb434371e01eef96.tar.xz
doc: df, du, ls: improve --blocksize description in --help
* src/du.c (usage): Print better --blocksize description. Prompted by Samuel Thibault in <http://bugs.debian.org/353100>. * src/df.c (usage): Likewise. * src/ls.c (usage): Likewise.
-rw-r--r--src/df.c4
-rw-r--r--src/du.c4
-rw-r--r--src/ls.c4
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/df.c b/src/df.c
index f47b3fcc4..76622fb69 100644
--- a/src/df.c
+++ b/src/df.c
@@ -819,7 +819,9 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-a, --all include dummy file systems\n\
- -B, --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks\n\
+ -B, --block-size=SIZE scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g.,\n\
+ `-BM' prints sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes.\n\
+ See SIZE format below.\n\
--total produce a grand total\n\
-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\
-H, --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024\n\
diff --git a/src/du.c b/src/du.c
index 2704f0f86..a90568ee8 100644
--- a/src/du.c
+++ b/src/du.c
@@ -281,7 +281,9 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
fragmentation, indirect blocks, and the like\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
- -B, --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks\n\
+ -B, --block-size=SIZE scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g.,\n\
+ `-BM' prints sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes.\n\
+ See SIZE format below.\n\
-b, --bytes equivalent to `--apparent-size --block-size=1'\n\
-c, --total produce a grand total\n\
-D, --dereference-args dereference only symlinks that are listed on the\n\
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 668507e0c..ff0ad2144 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -4592,7 +4592,9 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
-b, --escape print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
- --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks. See SIZE format below\n\
+ --block-size=SIZE scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g.,\n\
+ `--block-size=M' prints sizes in units of\n\
+ 1,048,576 bytes. See SIZE format below.\n\
-B, --ignore-backups do not list implied entries ending with ~\n\
-c with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last\n\
modification of file status information)\n\