Shorten the du --files0-from announcement, and say

"NUL-terminated" rather than "NUL-separated".

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 058bd05e35b7382bcd602a8c025f670b091a6c81..842f676d3c370fdc426568a0102d65eacb36bb91 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,12 +6,8 @@ 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 --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
-  rather than for the entire list.
+  du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a
+  list of NUL-terminated file names.
 
   `date -d' and `touch -d' now accept integer counts of seconds since
   1970 when prefixed by `@'.  For example, `@321' represents