From: Jim Meyering Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:33:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1971 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6ed597b0f43640eb2e9ea95156d15f7403c1a2d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with --total (-c), not with --summarize. --- diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 57b9e60924..bfc601446d 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