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authorSimon Doppler <dopsi@dopsi.ch>2019-01-23 08:55:38 +0100
committerYorhel <git@yorhel.nl>2019-01-24 08:24:09 +0100
commit74efdfaf97ff538bd5bc18d15bc1854e15a7ad05 (patch)
tree0dea4af2bc75dace972fa737e7d039bd02da7fac /doc
parent2409cc7a327f29e3f630efc0c4fc35797324b0b8 (diff)
Add a '--follow-symlinks' option
Symlink loops are handled by the stat(2) syscall. Symlinks pointing to a directory are ignored (to avoid loops in the recursive scan).
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@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ displayed, but not their content, and they are not counted towards the disk
usage statistics.
See http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/
+=item -L,--follow-symlinks
+
+Follow symlinks (except to directories) 00and count the size of the file
+they point to. Symlink loops and directories will be ignored.
+
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