bug#24209: du inconsistent with its documentation

[Pádraig Brady]

tag 24209 notabug
close 24209
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On 12/08/16 02:41, John Harper wrote:
> On an x86-64 Linux system with SHELL=/bin/bash , du objects to the option
> --max-depth=1 but du --help suggests it is allowed.
> 
> Evidence (with 5 empty spaces removed from the beginning of each line that 
> had them, so this email would not break lines unnecessarily):
> 
> miro[~]$ printenv | grep SHELL
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> miro[~]$ du --maxdepth=1
                   ^ missing hyphen