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-rw-r--r--THANKS.in1
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi4
-rw-r--r--src/du.c2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 3f71fef22..3451c6389 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -573,6 +573,7 @@ Stéphane Chazelas Stephane_CHAZELAS@yahoo.fr
Stephen Depooter sbdep@myrealbox.com
Stephen Eglen eglen@pcg.wustl.edu
Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org
+Stehpen Shirley kormat@gmail.com
Stephen Smoogen smooge@mindspring.com
Steve McConnel steve@acadcomp.sil.org
Steve McIntyre steve@einval.com
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index f6aef2dd0..1cc65329c 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -11496,7 +11496,7 @@ or @option{-x} is used together with a file name argument.
@cindex file space usage
@cindex disk usage for files
-@command{du} reports the amount of disk space used by the specified files
+@command{du} reports the amount of disk space used by the set of specified files
and for each subdirectory (of directory arguments). Synopsis:
@example
@@ -11511,7 +11511,7 @@ Non-integer quantities are rounded up to the next higher unit.
If two or more hard links point to the same file, only one of the hard
links is counted. The @var{file} argument order affects which links
are counted, and changing the argument order may change the numbers
-that @command{du} outputs.
+and entries that @command{du} outputs.
The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}.
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 ();