From b6ed597b0f43640eb2e9ea95156d15f7403c1a2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:33:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with --total (-c), not with --summarize. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.47.2