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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-12-20 11:28:14 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-12-20 11:28:14 +0000
commit340b33464a84570e8daff15a7f3816e89e24a296 (patch)
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(du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
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@@ -8447,6 +8447,15 @@ Show the total for each directory (and file if --all) that is at
most MAX_DEPTH levels down from the root of the hierarchy. The root
is at level 0, so @code{du --max-depth=0} is equivalent to @code{du -s}.
+@item -0
+@opindex -0
+@itemx --null
+@opindex --null
+@cindex output NUL-terminated lines
+Output the zero byte (@kbd{NUL}) at the end of each line, rather than a newline.
+This option enables other programs to parse the output of @command{du}
+even when that output would contain file names with embedded newlines.
+
@item -s
@itemx --summarize
@opindex -s