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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-23 11:33:56 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-23 11:33:56 +0000 |
commit | b6ed597b0f43640eb2e9ea95156d15f7403c1a2d (patch) | |
tree | 507779070a9d9f29378acf80a3de81f4f7416c56 /doc | |
parent | 38e279661184a86b27d8f2acba504a5495f3584b (diff) | |
download | coreutils-b6ed597b0f43640eb2e9ea95156d15f7403c1a2d.tar.xz |
(du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
--total (-c), not with --summarize.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 57b9e6092..bfc601446 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -8482,7 +8482,7 @@ are often symbolic links. @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}. -This is useful with the @option{--summarize} (@option{-s}) option when +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 |