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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-06-12 11:40:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-06-12 15:12:24 +0100 |
| commit | 63eea601d80ceb4d58afe7ef09690e40571e6d70 (patch) | |
| tree | 75fca7132974c8d1d79e00ceac39c45d2299e24d | |
| parent | 74cd098d2e6b3f8908123b174fd44e44170fd991 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-63eea601d80ceb4d58afe7ef09690e40571e6d70.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify the description of du --separate-dirs
* src/du.c (usage): Clarify that --separate-dirs doesn't exclude
all directories.
* doc/coreutils.texi (du invocation): Avoid implying that -S
excludes the size of any non directory entries for a directory.
Also don't mention st_size as it's dependent on --apparent-size.
Reported by C de-Avillez in <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1187044>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/du.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index d607eaf3d..a325bd058 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11436,8 +11436,7 @@ Normally, in the output of @command{du} (when not using @option{--summarize}), the size listed next to a directory name, @var{d}, represents the sum of sizes of all entries beneath @var{d} as well as the size of @var{d} itself. With @option{--separate-dirs}, the size reported for a directory name, -@var{d}, is merely the @code{stat.st_size}-derived size of the directory -entry, @var{d}. +@var{d}, will exclude the size of any subdirectories. @optSi @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ -P, --no-dereference don't follow any symbolic links (this is the default)\n\ - -S, --separate-dirs do not include size of subdirectories\n\ + -S, --separate-dirs for directories do not include size of subdirectories\n\ --si like -h, but use powers of 1000 not 1024\n\ -s, --summarize display only a total for each argument\n\ "), stdout); |