-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, I am aware of info pages. The problem is that reading them is more inconvenient than reverse engineering the behavior of the program. Luckily we have Google to present actual information in a readable format.
On 10/23/11 01:41, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Kevin Korb <k...@sanitarium.net > <mailto:k...@sanitarium.net>> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Well, I just looked at 'man du' and you are right about it. I could > swear that it used to say something more useful about the subject but I > couldn't quote it. > > > info du > > "If two or more hard links point to the same file, only one of the > hard links is counted. The FILE argument order affects which links are > counted, and changing the argument order may change the numbers that > `du' outputs." > > > In general the man pages for GNU tools suck. > > On 10/23/11 00:05, Eric Shubert wrote: > > I've read the man page: > > -s, --summarize > > display only a total for each argument > > > > Leaves a bit to interpretation, I think. > > > > Could go either way, no? After all, the name says: > > du - estimate file space usage > > > > I guess du estimates better than I assumed. > > Thanks for setting me straight Kevin. :) > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6jqkAACgkQVKC1jlbQAQd+OgCdG2YzILBh8Fesnco1N7rcTYWU LiMAmwST5U9PYfxlXx09irUkIvZmDtBo =OHcL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
