GNU bug report logs - #24209
du inconsistent with its documentation

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: John Harper <harper <at> msor.vuw.ac.nz>

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:51:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: John Harper <harper <at> msor.vuw.ac.nz>, 24209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 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
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