From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] man du -s correction diff
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 20:22:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XOKG2TevHGW=P4NJE2gOP9GPPR+NP9O=ptuN-kzdLDnTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EBE77893E9CE3937BDC099792A210A9@eigenstate.org>
doesnt help when you dont supply an argument.
and if you do supply an argument, well folders are also files, so...
On 11/2/21, ori@eigenstate.org <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
> 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"?
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-02 20:42 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
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 [this message]
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