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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2022-12-26 09:39:16 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2022-12-26 10:35:24 -0800
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doc: improve du --threshold wording
* doc/coreutils.texi (du invocation): Reword.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
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@@ -12493,13 +12493,10 @@ Although GNU @command{find} can be used to find files of a certain size,
@command{du}'s @option{--threshold} option can be used to also filter
directories based on a given size.
-Please note that the @option{--threshold} option can be combined with the
-@option{--apparent-size} option, and in this case would elide entries based on
-its apparent size.
-
-Please note that the @option{--threshold} option can be combined with the
-@option{--inodes} option, and in this case would elide entries based on
-its inodes count.
+When combined with the @option{--apparent-size} option, the
+@option{--threshold} option elides entries based on apparent size.
+When combined with the @option{--inodes} option, it elides entries
+based on inode counts.
Here's how you would use @option{--threshold} to find directories with a size
greater than or equal to 200 megabytes: