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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/man/cat1p/du.1p.txt b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/man/cat1p/du.1p.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00a4f3f --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/man/cat1p/du.1p.txt @@ -0,0 +1,253 @@ +du(P) du(P) + + + + + +NAME + du - estimate file space usage + +SYNOPSIS + du [-a | -s][-kx][-H | -L][file ...] + +DESCRIPTION + By default, the du utility shall write to standard out- + put the size of the file space allocated to, and the + size of the file space allocated to each subdirectory + of, the file hierarchy rooted in each of the specified + files. By default, when a symbolic link is encountered + on the command line or in the file hierarchy, du shall + count the size of the symbolic link (rather than the + file referenced by the link), and shall not follow the + link to another portion of the file hierarchy. The size + of the file space allocated to a file of type directory + shall be defined as the sum total of space allocated to + all files in the file hierarchy rooted in the directory + plus the space allocated to the directory itself. + + When du cannot stat() files or stat() or read directo- + ries, it shall report an error condition and the final + exit status is affected. Files with multiple links shall + be counted and written for only one entry. The directory + entry that is selected in the report is unspecified. By + default, file sizes shall be written in 512-byte units, + rounded up to the next 512-byte unit. + +OPTIONS + The du utility shall conform to the Base Definitions + volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility + Syntax Guidelines. + + The following options shall be supported: + + -a In addition to the default output, report the + size of each file not of type directory in the + file hierarchy rooted in the specified file. + Regardless of the presence of the -a option, non- + directories given as file operands shall always + be listed. + + -H If a symbolic link is specified on the command + line, du shall count the size of the file or file + hierarchy referenced by the link. + + -k Write the files sizes in units of 1024 bytes, + rather than the default 512-byte units. + + -L If a symbolic link is specified on the command + line or encountered during the traversal of a + file hierarchy, du shall count the size of the + file or file hierarchy referenced by the link. + + -s Instead of the default output, report only the + total sum for each of the specified files. + + -x When evaluating file sizes, evaluate only those + files that have the same device as the file spec- + ified by the file operand. + + + Specifying more than one of the mutually-exclusive + options -H and -L shall not be considered an error. The + last option specified shall determine the behavior of + the utility. + +OPERANDS + The following operand shall be supported: + + file The pathname of a file whose size is to be writ- + ten. If no file is specified, the current direc- + tory shall be used. + + +STDIN + Not used. + +INPUT FILES + None. + +ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES + The following environment variables shall affect the + execution of du: + + LANG Provide a default value for the internationaliza- + tion variables that are unset or null. (See the + Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, + Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for + the precedence of internationalization variables + used to determine the values of locale cate- + gories.) + + LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the + values of all the other internationalization + variables. + + LC_CTYPE + Determine the locale for the interpretation of + sequences of bytes of text data as characters + (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi- + byte characters in arguments). + + LC_MESSAGES + Determine the locale that should be used to + affect the format and contents of diagnostic mes- + sages written to standard error. + + NLSPATH + Determine the location of message catalogs for + the processing of LC_MESSAGES . + + +ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS + Default. + +STDOUT + The output from du shall consist of the amount of space + allocated to a file and the name of the file, in the + following format: + + + "%d %s\n", <size>, <pathname> + +STDERR + The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic + messages. + +OUTPUT FILES + None. + +EXTENDED DESCRIPTION + None. + +EXIT STATUS + The following exit values shall be returned: + + 0 Successful completion. + + >0 An error occurred. + + +CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS + Default. + + The following sections are informative. + +APPLICATION USAGE + None. + +EXAMPLES + None. + +RATIONALE + The use of 512-byte units is historical practice and + maintains compatibility with ls and other utilities in + this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. This does not man- + date that the file system itself be based on 512-byte + blocks. The -k option was added as a compromise measure. + It was agreed by the standard developers that 512 bytes + was the best default unit because of its complete his- + torical consistency on System V (versus the mixed + 512/1024-byte usage on BSD systems), and that a -k + option to switch to 1024-byte units was a good compro- + mise. Users who prefer the 1024-byte quantity can easily + alias du to du -k without breaking the many historical + scripts relying on the 512-byte units. + + The -b option was added to an early proposal to provide + a resolution to the situation where System V and BSD + systems give figures for file sizes in blocks, which is + an implementation-defined concept. (In common usage, the + block size is 512 bytes for System V and 1024 bytes for + BSD systems.) However, -b was later deleted, since the + default was eventually decided as 512-byte units. + + Historical file systems provided no way to obtain exact + figures for the space allocation given to files. There + are two known areas of inaccuracies in historical file + systems: cases of indirect blocks being used by the file + system or sparse files yielding incorrectly high values. + An indirect block is space used by the file system in + the storage of the file, but that need not be counted in + the space allocated to the file. A sparse file is one in + which an lseek() call has been made to a position beyond + the end of the file and data has subsequently been writ- + ten at that point. A file system need not allocate all + the intervening zero-filled blocks to such a file. It is + up to the implementation to define exactly how accurate + its methods are. + + The -a and -s options were mutually-exclusive in the + original version of du. The POSIX Shell and Utilities + description is implied by the language in the SVID where + -s is described as causing "only the grand total" to be + reported. Some systems may produce output for -sa, but + a Strictly Conforming POSIX Shell and Utilities Applica- + tion cannot use that combination. + + The -a and -s options were adopted from the SVID except + that the System V behavior of not listing non-directo- + ries explicitly given as operands, unless the -a option + is specified, was considered a bug; the BSD-based + behavior (report for all operands) is mandated. The + default behavior of du in the SVID with regard to + reporting the failure to read files (it produces no mes- + sages) was considered counter-intuitive, and thus it was + specified that the POSIX Shell and Utilities default + behavior shall be to produce such messages. These mes- + sages can be turned off with shell redirection to + achieve the System V behavior. + + The -x option is historical practice on recent BSD sys- + tems. It has been adopted by this volume of + IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 because there was no other histori- + cal method of limiting the du search to a single file + hierarchy. This limitation of the search is necessary to + make it possible to obtain file space usage information + about a file system on which other file systems are + mounted, without having to resort to a lengthy find and + awk script. + +FUTURE DIRECTIONS + None. + +SEE ALSO + ls , the System Interfaces volume of + IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, stat() + +COPYRIGHT + Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in + electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, + Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operat- + ing System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Speci- + fications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Insti- + tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and + The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between + this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group + Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard + is the referee document. The original Standard can be + obtained online at http://www.open- + group.org/unix/online.html . + + + +POSIX 2003 du(P) |