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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a list of
- NUL-separated file names. This is useful for running du --summarize (-s)
+ NUL-separated file names. This is useful for running du --total (-c)
when the list of file names is so long that it may exceed a command line
length limitation. In such cases, using xargs is undesirable because
it splits the list into pieces and makes du give a total for each sublist