Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [12-08-10 22:47]:
> On 2010/12/08 20:01 (GMT-0500) Patrick Shanahan composed:
>
> > the unused man page says "--max-depth=N"
>
> > amazing information there  :^)
>
> Only the understandable part, which for me is most of it, since as
> usual for man pages, examples are absent.
>
> # du --max-depth=1K -k | sort -rn
> 4216219       .
> 3221524       ./usr
> 677585        ./var
> 140599        ./lib

again from the hard to read man pages:

       -k     like --block-size=1K
       
       --max-depth=N
          print the total for a directory (or file, with --all) only if
          it is N or fewer levels below the command line argument;
          --max-depth=0 is the same as --summarize
                                   
./user has 3221524 1k blocks
  or 3221524 k
  or 3.22154gb
  
man sort yealds
       -r, --reverse
          reverse the result of comparisons
       -n, --numeric-sort
          compare according to string numerical value

like biggest numbers first

but again, no examples, but for such simple things are examples really
necessary?  If you find they would enhance the man pages sufficiently,
why don't you experiment with the parameters and concoct examples and
update the man pages?


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