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du inconsistent with its documentation

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From: John Harper <harper <at> msor.vuw.ac.nz>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: du inconsistent with its documentation
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:41:11 +1200 (NZST)

On an x86-64 Linux system with SHELL=/bin/bash , du objects to the option
--max-depth=1 but du --help suggests it is allowed.

Evidence (with 5 empty spaces removed from the beginning of each line that 
had them, so this email would not break lines unnecessarily):

miro[~]$ printenv | grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
miro[~]$ du --maxdepth=1
du: unrecognized option '--maxdepth=1'
Try `du --help' for more information.
miro[~]$ du --help | grep -A 1 depth
 --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

-- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
e-mail john.harper <at> vuw.ac.nz phone (+64)(4)463 5276 fax (+64)(4)463 5045

Message #8 received at 24209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: John Harper <harper <at> msor.vuw.ac.nz>, 24209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24209: du inconsistent with its documentation
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:27:51 +0100

tag 24209 notabug
close 24209
stop

On 12/08/16 02:41, John Harper wrote:
> On an x86-64 Linux system with SHELL=/bin/bash , du objects to the option
> --max-depth=1 but du --help suggests it is allowed.
> 
> Evidence (with 5 empty spaces removed from the beginning of each line that 
> had them, so this email would not break lines unnecessarily):
> 
> miro[~]$ printenv | grep SHELL
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> miro[~]$ du --maxdepth=1
                   ^ missing hyphen

Message #13 received at 24209-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: John Harper <harper <at> msor.vuw.ac.nz>, 24209-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24209: du inconsistent with its documentation
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 01:03:36 -0700

John Harper wrote:
> miro[~]$ du --maxdepth=1

It's 'max-depth', not 'maxdepth'.

Message #16 received at 24209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Harper <harper <at> msor.vuw.ac.nz>
To: 24209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24209: Acknowledgement (du inconsistent with its
 documentation)
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 09:31:31 +1200 (NZST)

Apologies - I had failed to notice that my option was --maxdepth=1 
instead of the correct --max-depth=1

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-- John Harper, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
e-mail john.harper <at> vuw.ac.nz phone (+64)(4)463 5276 fax (+64)(4)463 5045

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