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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-06-28 13:48:38 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-06-29 07:06:31 +0200
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doc: df, du, ls: improve --blocksize description in --help
* src/du.c (usage): Print better --blocksize description. Prompted by Samuel Thibault in <http://bugs.debian.org/353100>. * src/df.c (usage): Likewise. * src/ls.c (usage): Likewise.
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@@ -819,7 +819,9 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-a, --all include dummy file systems\n\
- -B, --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks\n\
+ -B, --block-size=SIZE scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g.,\n\
+ `-BM' prints sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes.\n\
+ See SIZE format below.\n\
--total produce a grand total\n\
-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\
-H, --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024\n\