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authorceri <ceri@FreeBSD.org>2006-08-17 16:29:27 +0000
committerceri <ceri@FreeBSD.org>2006-08-17 16:29:27 +0000
commit8dcb0483a6e8eff67cf2fb1309ec730ae1f05773 (patch)
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Further nitpicking.
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.126
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1 b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
index b7fd9dd..2a8727a 100644
--- a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
+++ b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" @(#)locate.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 23, 2004
+.Dd August 17, 2006
.Dt LOCATE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching file names.
.It Fl d Ar database
Search in
.Ar database
-instead the default file name database.
+instead of the default file name database.
Multiple
.Fl d
options are allowed.
@@ -237,20 +237,20 @@ to locate files that are of a more transitory nature.
.Pp
The
.Nm
-database was built by user
-.Dq nobody .
-The
-.Xr find 1
-utility skips directories,
+database is typically built by user
+.Dq nobody
+and the
+.Xr locate.updatedb 8
+utility skips directories
which are not readable for user
.Dq nobody ,
group
.Dq nobody ,
or
world.
-E.g.\& if your HOME directory is not world-readable, all your
-files are
-.Ar not
+For example, if your HOME directory is not world-readable,
+.Ar none
+of your files are
in the database.
.Pp
The
@@ -260,12 +260,12 @@ It is not possible
to share the databases between machines with different byte order.
The current
.Nm
-implementation understand databases in host byte order or
+implementation understands databases in host byte order or
network byte order if both architectures use the same integer size.
-So you can read on a
+So on a
.Fx Ns /i386
machine
-(little endian)
+(little endian), you can read
a locate database which was built on SunOS/sparc machine
(big endian, net).
.Pp
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