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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-01-19 10:52:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-01-19 11:10:02 +0000 |
| commit | 4c77bd23e8c933161c6b64534310548ede2d1ebb (patch) | |
| tree | 724aacc627b132909cadc99c4eda7573462bc3cd /doc | |
| parent | e84046dbe6dd26bfcea7edf6fb419bea274635ab (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4c77bd23e8c933161c6b64534310548ede2d1ebb.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify that du operands are interdependent
Following on from http://bugs.gnu.org/17546
make it more obvious that du may elide specified operands
to avoid double counting in the set.
* src/du.c (usage): Specify that du operates on the set of
operands, rather than each independently.
* doc/coreutils.texi (du invocation): Likewise. Also state
that the number of entries printed may change due to the
order specified. Currently, deeper items specified earlier
will result in them being displayed, but don't mention that
implementation detail in the documentation.
* THANKS.in: Add reporter.
Reported by Stephen Shirley
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f6aef2dd0..1cc65329c 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11496,7 +11496,7 @@ or @option{-x} is used together with a file name argument. @cindex file space usage @cindex disk usage for files -@command{du} reports the amount of disk space used by the specified files +@command{du} reports the amount of disk space used by the set of specified files and for each subdirectory (of directory arguments). Synopsis: @example @@ -11511,7 +11511,7 @@ Non-integer quantities are rounded up to the next higher unit. If two or more hard links point to the same file, only one of the hard links is counted. The @var{file} argument order affects which links are counted, and changing the argument order may change the numbers -that @command{du} outputs. +and entries that @command{du} outputs. The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. |