Minor documentation updates/fixes/improvements.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5648ac5de9c9c12b0568243d6cea782a53ae45c3..7e19d779fb0b576b989291b7422fdf24028d2f3d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 adu creates a database containing disk usage statistics of a given
 directory. It allows to query that database to quickly retrieve usage
-patterns of subdirectories and/or files owned by a given user.
+patterns of subdirectories containing files owned by a given user.
 
 Four different output modes are available: global list, global summary,
 user list, user summary. The format of the output may be customized

diff --git a/adu.ggo b/adu.ggo
index 2964558ada5ba0c38153fd780d09db5d70c51b71..ec24054527c638307f782553f343a60afce380e1 100644 (file)
--- a/adu.ggo
+++ b/adu.ggo
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ groupoption "create" C
 "Create a new database"
 group="mode"
 details="
-       Traverse the given directory and track disk user on a per-user
-       basis. Results are stored in N + 1 osl tables where N is
-       the number of uids that own at least one regular file in
-       that directory.
+       Traverse the given directory and track disk usage on a
+       per-user basis. Results are stored in N + 1 osl tables where
+       N is the number of uids that own at least one regular file
+       in that directory.
 "
 
 groupoption "interactive" I
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ groupoption "interactive" I
 "activate interactive mode"
 group="mode"
 details="
-       In this mode, adu reads commands from stdin.  This makes it
+       In this mode, adu reads commands from stdin. This makes it
        possible to run different select queries without opening the
        underlying osl database for each query (which is expensive).
 
@@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ groupoption "select" S
 group="mode"
 details="
        This option prints statistics about matching subdirectories
-       to stdout. The output can be customized by specifying select
-       options, see below.
+       to stdout, to an output file or pipes the output to a given
+       command, depending on the --output option. The output format
+       can be customized by specifying select options, see below.
 "
 
 ##############################
@@ -120,11 +121,10 @@ string typestr="path"
 dependon="create"
 optional
 details="
-       The base directory to be traversed recursively. Must be
-       given if --create mode was selected. A warning message is
-       printed for each subdirectory that could not be read because
-       of insufficient permission. These directories will be ignored
-       when computing statistics.
+       The base directory to be traversed recursively. A warning
+       message is printed for each subdirectory that could not be
+       read because of insufficient permissions. These directories
+       will be ignored when computing statistics.
 "
 
 option "one-file-system" x

diff --git a/select.ggo b/select.ggo
index f29cd2f8a6ad947f15ce9079135bdcd8dfe63d35..6384c39f3cd97f3ad63347d4d16aecaac3746dad 100644 (file)
--- a/select.ggo
+++ b/select.ggo
@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ values="user_summary","user_list","global_summary","global_list"
 default="user_summary"
 optional
 details="
-       global_list: List of directories, regardless of owner.
-       global_summary: Only print totals.
+       user_summary: Print totals for each admissible uid.
        user_list: Print a list for each admissible uid.
-       user_summary Print totals for each admissible uid.
+       global_summary: Only print totals.
+       global_list: List of directories, regardless of owner.
 "
 
 option "list-sort" s