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authorjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>1999-04-19 08:26:00 +0000
committerjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>1999-04-19 08:26:00 +0000
commit66714352cee7d9a23f3755465f69836dfb494d7a (patch)
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parent8794200df479245a2736084fb3788d9631f6d993 (diff)
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Clarify wording to indicate that the arguments to find(1) are path names
(and can be both files or directories). Show white space between "(", ")", "!" and their corresponding `expression' arguments as expected by the expression parser inside find(1). Prompted by: David Honig <David.Honig@idt.com> on freebsd-doc Message-Id: <199904132055.NAA09432@justinian.Eng.idt.com>
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/find/find.112
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
index ed958c4f..dc612d5 100644
--- a/usr.bin/find/find.1
+++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)find.1 8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
-.\" $Id: find.1,v 1.17 1998/11/29 12:00:06 bde Exp $
+.\" $Id: find.1,v 1.18 1998/12/31 16:21:51 billf Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 9, 1995
.Dt FIND 1
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@
.Nm find
.Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P
.Op Fl Xdsx
-.Op Fl f Ar file
-.Op Ar file ...
+.Op Fl f Ar pathname
+.Op Ar pathname ...
.Ar expression
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Find
recursively descends the directory tree for each
-.Ar file
+.Ar pathname
listed, evaluating an
.Ar expression
(composed of the ``primaries'' and ``operands'' listed below) in terms
@@ -400,11 +400,11 @@ A preceding plus sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means
The primaries may be combined using the following operators.
The operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence.
.Bl -tag -width (expression)
-.It Cm \&( Ns Ar expression Ns Cm \&)
+.It Cm \&( Ar expression Cm \&)
This evaluates to true if the parenthesized expression evaluates to
true.
.Pp
-.It Cm \&! Ns Ar expression
+.It Cm \&! Ar expression
This is the unary
.Tn NOT
operator.
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