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authorYorhel <git@yorhel.nl>2016-08-24 20:30:12 +0200
committerYorhel <git@yorhel.nl>2016-08-24 20:30:15 +0200
commit502d029509a6382d3eaecbc69c2b0b6a46dd3147 (patch)
treeb21bdb44ac273aee801648fc343cd63fe2f7a109
parentdcf08bd8bb008a5ea1d5f775100f48790725b35b (diff)
Minor documentation changes
Sneaky change from using mc as an example to using vifm. It's closer to ncdu in spirit.
-rw-r--r--doc/ncdu.pod22
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ncdu.pod b/doc/ncdu.pod
index 43d6238..14ca87b 100644
--- a/doc/ncdu.pod
+++ b/doc/ncdu.pod
@@ -219,14 +219,13 @@ Refresh/recalculate the current directory.
Spawn shell in current directory.
-We first check the $NCDU_SHELL environment variable of the user for the
-preferred shell interpreter. If it's not set, $SHELL is checked. If that
-variable also isn't defined, we fall back to the compile time configured
-default shell (usually /bin/sh). This allows you to specify which program to
-launch when 'b' is pressed. For example, if you want ncdu to execute the
-Midnight Commander file manager in the current directory:
-
- export NCDU_SHELL=mc
+Ncdu will determine your preferred shell from the C<NCDU_SHELL> or C<SHELL>
+variable (in that order), or will call C</bin/sh> if neither are set. This
+allows you to also configure another command to be run when he 'b' key is
+pressed. For example, to spawn the L<vifm(1)> file manager instead of a shell,
+run ncdu as follows:
+
+ export NCDU_SHELL=vifm
ncdu
=item q
@@ -318,7 +317,12 @@ or multicolumn characters.
All sizes are internally represented as a signed 64bit integer. If you have a
directory larger than 8 EiB minus one byte, ncdu will clip its size to 8 EiB
-minus one byte.
+minus one byte. When deleting items in a directory with a clipped size, the
+resulting sizes will be incorrect.
+
+Item counts are stored in a signed 32-bit integer without overflow detection.
+If you have a directory with more than 2 billion files, quite literally
+anything can happen.
Please report any other bugs you may find at the bug tracker, which can be
found on the web site at http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu