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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] man du -s correction diff
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:57:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBE77893E9CE3937BDC099792A210A9@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YYFf3ZL7UOzALlPa@beryllium.local>

Quoth Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com>:
> Quoth Kyle Milz:
> >the description in the manual for du -s looks just plain wrong.
> >by itself du -s only prints values for the top level.
> 
> The top level being each `file` argument, and the values being gotten 
> by descending the hierarchy as always.
> 
> -- 
> Humm
> 

I agree that the current phrasing is a bit confusing.
What about "for each file" => "for each argument"?


  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-02 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-01 22:46 Kyle Milz
2021-11-01 23:39 ` umbraticus
2021-11-02 16:49   ` Kyle Milz
2021-11-02  4:25 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2021-11-02  9:30 ` hiro
2021-11-02 10:42   ` Eckard Brauer
2021-11-02 15:57 ` Humm
2021-11-02 16:57   ` ori [this message]
2021-11-02 18:54     ` Kyle Milz
2021-11-02 18:54     ` Eckard Brauer
2021-11-02 19:38       ` ori
2021-11-02 21:53         ` Kyle Milz
2021-11-02 19:22     ` hiro

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