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Bug 177826 - sys-apps/coreutils manpages incomplete/different from other distros
Summary: sys-apps/coreutils manpages incomplete/different from other distros
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105188
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2007-05-09 16:23 UTC by Heiko Baumann
Modified: 2007-05-09 17:13 UTC (History)
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Description Heiko Baumann 2007-05-09 16:23:19 UTC 
the manpages from coreutils are not complete.

in my case is searched for a way to run "du -sch" on a huge list of files without running into "Argument list too long". the man page of du(1) does not show the option --files0-from but "du --help" shows it.

i checked manpages from suse and centos and both are describing this option. after comparing the manpages i noticed that the manpages on suse and centos are nearly the same but the gentoo manpages are completely different.

"--files0-from" is not the only missing option. "--apparent-size" for example is also not present in the manpage.

however, the info page shows this options but its IMHO a little confusing because most users are first/only looking into manpages.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-09 17:13:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 105188 ***