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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-01-19 10:52:54 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-01-19 11:10:02 +0000
commit4c77bd23e8c933161c6b64534310548ede2d1ebb (patch)
tree724aacc627b132909cadc99c4eda7573462bc3cd /src
parente84046dbe6dd26bfcea7edf6fb419bea274635ab (diff)
downloadcoreutils-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 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/du.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/du.c b/src/du.c
index e803e69c5..65fc0742f 100644
--- a/src/du.c
+++ b/src/du.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
or: %s [OPTION]... --files0-from=F\n\
"), program_name, program_name);
fputs (_("\
-Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.\n\
+Summarize disk usage of the set of FILEs, recursively for directories.\n\
"), stdout);
emit_mandatory_arg_note ();