Hello, find attached two patches by Bjarni Ingi Gislason which a) fix some typos and errors and b) improve the formatting.
Both originally submitted in http://bugs.debian.org/726870 thanks for considering cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
>From 8eebb23560045f298287ac898f26be50bc7c785b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:31:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Typo and grammar fixes. Issue reported by and patch provided by Bjarni Ingi Gislason. http://bugs.debian.org/726870 --- find/find.1 | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1 index cc3f9d4..3b37e62 100644 --- a/find/find.1 +++ b/find/find.1 @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ need to stat the file first. If you use the .B \-fstype .I FOO -predicate and specify a filsystem type +predicate and specify a filesystem type .I FOO which is not known (that is, present in `/etc/mtab') at the time .B find @@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ section for some illustrative examples. .IP "\-perm \-\fImode\fR" All of the permission bits \fImode\fR are set for the file. Symbolic modes are accepted in this form, and this is usually the way -in which would want to use them. You must specify `u', `g' or `o' if +in which you would want to use them. You must specify `u', `g' or `o' if you use a symbolic mode. See the .B EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples. @@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ handle sparse files differently. The `b' suffix always denotes 512-byte blocks and never 1 Kilobyte blocks, which is different to the behaviour of .BR \-ls . -The + and - prefixes signifiy greater than and less than, as usual, +The + and - prefixes signify greater than and less than, as usual, but bear in mind that the size is rounded up to the next unit (so a 1-byte file is not matched by .BR "-size -1M" ). @@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@ on the correctness of the results of When some error occurs, .B find -may stop immeidately, without completing all the actions specified. +may stop immediately, without completing all the actions specified. For example, some starting points may not have been examined or some pending program invocations for .B \-exec ... {} + -- 2.6.4
>From 3884fd9bcae109d9c84d5eb588eb9c023d9f9416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:36:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Improved formatting. Formatting fixes provided by provided by Bjarni Ingi Gislason. http://bugs.debian.org/726870 * A full stop (.) that starts or ends a string and is a part of it, protected with \& * Space between some sentences reduced or increased. --- find/find.1 | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1 index 3b37e62..a2585e6 100644 --- a/find/find.1 +++ b/find/find.1 @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ starts, that predicate is equivalent to .BR \-false . .IP 3 At this optimisation level, the full cost-based query optimiser is -enabled. The order of tests is modified so that cheap (i.e. fast) +enabled. The order of tests is modified so that cheap (i.e.\& fast) tests are performed first and more expensive ones are performed later, if necessary. Within each cost band, predicates are evaluated earlier or later according to whether they are likely to succeed or not. For @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ not actually improve the performance of .BR find , it will be removed again. Conversely, optimisations that prove to be reliable, robust and effective may be enabled at lower optimisation -levels over time. However, the default behaviour (i.e. optimisation +levels over time. However, the default behaviour (i.e.\& optimisation level 1) will not be changed in the 4.3.x release series. The findutils test suite runs all the tests on .B find @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ searching filesystems that do not follow the Unix directory-link convention, such as CD-ROM or MS-DOS filesystems or AFS volume mount points. Each directory on a normal Unix filesystem has at least 2 hard links: its name and its `.' entry. Additionally, its -subdirectories (if any) each have a `..' entry linked to that +subdirectories (if any) each have a `..\&' entry linked to that directory. When .B find is examining a directory, after it has statted 2 fewer subdirectories @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ Like but the match is case insensitive. .IP "\-iwholename \fIpattern\fR" -See \-ipath. This alternative is less portable than +See \-ipath. This alternative is less portable than .BR \-ipath . .IP "\-links \fIn\fR" @@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ File was last accessed \fIn\fR days after its status was last changed. File is owned by user \fIuname\fR (numeric user ID allowed). .IP "\-wholename \fIpattern\fR" -See \-path. This alternative is less portable than +See \-path. This alternative is less portable than .BR \-path . .IP "\-writable" @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ available on all systems, due to differences in `strftime' between systems. .RS .IP @ -seconds since Jan. 1, 1970, 00:00 GMT, with fractional part. +seconds since Jan.\& 1, 1970, 00:00 GMT, with fractional part. .PP Time fields: .IP H @@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ last two digits of year (00..99) year (1970...) .RE .IP %b -The amount of disk space used for this file in 512-byte blocks. Since disk +The amount of disk space used for this file in 512-byte blocks. Since disk space is allocated in multiples of the filesystem block size this is usually greater than %s/512, but it can also be smaller if the file is a sparse file. .IP %c @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ Starting-point under which file was found. .IP %i File's inode number (in decimal). .IP %k -The amount of disk space used for this file in 1K blocks. Since disk space is +The amount of disk space used for this file in 1K blocks. Since disk space is allocated in multiples of the filesystem block size this is usually greater than %s/1024, but it can also be smaller if the file is a sparse file. .IP %l @@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. .RE .IP \-prune -True; if the file is a directory, do not descend into it. If +True; if the file is a directory, do not descend into it. If .B \-depth is given, false; no effect. Because .B \-delete @@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ paths specified on the command line will be processed. For example, will print only .BR /tmp/foo . Any command lines which have been built up with -.B \-execdir ... {} + +.B \-execdir \&...\& {} + will be invoked before .B find exits. The exit status may or may not be zero, depending on whether @@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ Same as \fIexpr1\fR .IP "\fIexpr1\fR , \fIexpr2\fR" List; both \fIexpr1\fR and \fIexpr2\fR are always evaluated. The value of \fIexpr1\fR is discarded; the value of the list is the value -of \fIexpr2\fR. The comma operator can be useful for searching for +of \fIexpr2\fR. The comma operator can be useful for searching for several different types of thing, but traversing the filesystem hierarchy only once. The .B \-fprintf @@ -1584,7 +1584,7 @@ Interpretation of the response is according to the "yes" and "no" patterns selected by setting the `LC_MESSAGES' environment variable. When the `POSIXLY_CORRECT' environment variable is set, these patterns are taken system's definition of a positive (yes) or negative (no) -response. See the system's +response. See the system's documentation for \fBnl_langinfo\fP(3), in particular YESEXPR and NOEXPR. When `POSIXLY_CORRECT' is not set, the patterns are instead taken from @@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ The .B find utility shall detect infinite loops; that is, entering a previously visited directory that is an ancestor of the last file -encountered. When it detects an infinite loop, find shall write a +encountered. When it detects an infinite loop, find shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and shall either recover its position in the hierarchy or terminate. .P @@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@ but omits files and directories named ends in .BR ~ , but not their contents. The construct -.B \-prune \-o \e( ... \-print0 \e) +.B \-prune \-o \e( \&...\& \-print0 \e) is quite common. The idea here is that the expression before .B \-prune matches things which are to be pruned. However, the @@ -2046,9 +2046,9 @@ When some error occurs, may stop immediately, without completing all the actions specified. For example, some starting points may not have been examined or some pending program invocations for -.B \-exec ... {} + +.B \-exec \&...\& {} + or -.B \-execdir ... {} + +.B \-execdir \&...\& {} + may not have been performed. @@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ may not have been performed. \fBlstat\fP(2), \fBls\fP(1), \fBprintf\fP(3), \fBstrftime\fP(3), \fBctime\fP(3) -The full documentation for +The full documentation for .B find is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the .B info -- 2.6.4
