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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-24 15:12:39 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-24 15:12:39 +0000
commit6efb50627ea8877a7349bdf9824300170000a194 (patch)
treef6be38081d890c8e0f6fc7876fc213e0943c3e29 /doc
parent032c6c1c3d322aaa95dde6b5ec4de470d4856935 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-6efb50627ea8877a7349bdf9824300170000a194.tar.xz
Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
(du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index bfc601446..83815275c 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -4258,7 +4258,7 @@ disabled, width of references is not taken into account in the output
line width computations.
@item
-All 256 characters, even @kbd{NUL}s, are always read and processed from
+All 256 characters, even @sc{nul}s, are always read and processed from
input file with no adverse effect, even if @sc{gnu} extensions are disabled.
However, System V @command{ptx} does not accept 8-bit characters, a few
control characters are rejected, and the tilde @kbd{~} is also rejected.
@@ -8477,18 +8477,18 @@ Does not affect other symbolic links. This is helpful for finding
out the disk usage of directories, such as @file{/usr/tmp}, which
are often symbolic links.
-@itemx --files0-from=@var{FILE0}
-@opindex --files0-from=@var{FILE0}
+@itemx --files0-from=@var{FILE}
+@opindex --files0-from=@var{FILE}
@cindex including files from @command{du}
Rather than processing files named on the command line, process those
-in the NUL-separated list in file @var{FILE0}.
+in the @sc{nul}-terminated list in file @var{FILE}.
This is useful with the @option{--total} (@option{-c}) option when
the list of file names is so long that it may exceed a command line
length limitation.
In such cases, running @command{du} via @command{xargs} is undesirable
because it splits the list into pieces and makes @command{du} print a
total for each sublist rather than for the entire list.
-One way to produce a list of NUL-separated file names is with @sc{gnu}
+One way to produce a list of @sc{nul}-terminated file names is with @sc{gnu}
@command{find}, using its @option{-print0} predicate.
Do not specify any @var{FILE} on the command line when using this option.
@@ -8544,8 +8544,8 @@ is at level 0, so @code{du --max-depth=0} is equivalent to @code{du -s}.
@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.
+@cindex output @sc{nul}-terminated lines
+Output the zero byte (@sc{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.