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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:08:17 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r242550 - head/usr.bin/du
Message-ID:  <201211040908.qA498HAl040739@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: joel (doc committer)
Date: Sun Nov  4 09:08:17 2012
New Revision: 242550
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/242550

Log:
  Add a few basic examples.

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/du/du.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/du/du.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/du/du.1	Sun Nov  4 08:47:41 2012	(r242549)
+++ head/usr.bin/du/du.1	Sun Nov  4 09:08:17 2012	(r242550)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)du.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/1/94
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd July 18, 2012
+.Dd November 4, 2012
 .Dt DU 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -191,6 +191,24 @@ or
 options are not specified, the block counts will be displayed in 512-byte
 blocks.
 .El
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Show disk usage for all files in the current directory. Output is in
+human-readable form:
+.Pp
+.Dl # du -ah
+.Pp
+Summarize disk usage in the current directory:
+.Pp
+.Dl # du -hs
+.Pp
+Summarize disk usage for a specific directory:
+.Pp
+.Dl # du -hs /home
+.Pp
+Show name and size of all C files in a specific directory. Also display a
+grand total at the end:
+.Pp
+.Dl # du -ch /usr/src/sys/kern/*.c
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr df 1 ,
 .Xr chflags 2 ,



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