improve description of du's--separate-dirs option

* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Prompted by Volker Badziong's
report in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13646
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Jim Meyering 2008-05-29 21:32:40 +02:00
parent 8581bcc9e3
commit 9f678af5f3

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@c * [: (coreutils)[ invocation. File/string tests.
@c * pinky: (coreutils)pinky invocation. FIXME.
@c * uptime: (coreutils)uptime invocation. FIXME.
@c * mktemp: (coreutils)mktemp invocation. FIXME.
@c * chcon: (coreutils)chcon invocation. FIXME.
@dircategory Individual utilities
@direntry
@ -9838,8 +9840,12 @@ Display only a total for each argument.
@itemx --separate-dirs
@opindex -S
@opindex --separate-dirs
Report the size of each directory separately, not including the sizes
of subdirectories.
Normally, in the output of @command{du} (when not using @option{--summarize}),
the size listed next to a directory name, @var{d}, represents the sum
of sizes of all entries beneath @var{d} as well as the size of @var{d} itself.
With @option{--separate-dirs}, the size reported for a directory name,
@var{d}, is merely the @code{stat.st_size}-derived size of the directory
entry, @var{d}.
@itemx --time
@opindex --time