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| author | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-19 08:26:00 +0000 |
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| committer | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-19 08:26:00 +0000 |
| commit | 66714352cee7d9a23f3755465f69836dfb494d7a (patch) | |
| tree | e3d3166f0981c2c66c156012167e8b05e1c5fe53 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 8794200df479245a2736084fb3788d9631f6d993 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-66714352cee7d9a23f3755465f69836dfb494d7a.zip FreeBSD-src-66714352cee7d9a23f3755465f69836dfb494d7a.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/find/find.1 | 12 |
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. |
