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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-06-12 11:40:25 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-06-12 15:12:24 +0100
commit63eea601d80ceb4d58afe7ef09690e40571e6d70 (patch)
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parent74cd098d2e6b3f8908123b174fd44e44170fd991 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-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>
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index d607eaf3d..a325bd058 100644
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@@ -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