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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-24 15:12:39 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-24 15:12:39 +0000 |
commit | 6efb50627ea8877a7349bdf9824300170000a194 (patch) | |
tree | f6be38081d890c8e0f6fc7876fc213e0943c3e29 /doc | |
parent | 032c6c1c3d322aaa95dde6b5ec4de470d4856935 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-6efb50627ea8877a7349bdf9824300170000a194.tar.xz |
Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
(du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 14 |
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. |