* doc/find.texi: Use gerund after "allows".
As a side effect, this also avoids passive voice in some cases;
active voice is usually clearer.
---
doc/find.texi | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi
index 1cb65066..34daf7c8 100644
--- a/doc/find.texi
+++ b/doc/find.texi
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ Therefore, @samp{find -L -samefile NAME} will find both
hard links and
symbolic links pointing to the file referenced by @var{name}.
@end deffn
-@command{find} also allows to search for files by inode number.
+@command{find} also allows searching for files by inode number.
This can occasionally be useful in diagnosing problems with file systems;
for example, @command{fsck} and @command{lsof} tend to print inode numbers.
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ Therefore, it is much of the time easier to use
@samp{-samefile} rather than
this option.
@end deffn
-@command{find} also allows to search for files that have a certain number of
+@command{find} also allows searching for files that have a certain number of
links, with @samp{-links}.
A directory normally has at least two hard links: the entry named in its parent
@@ -2661,7 +2661,7 @@ reduce performance. If you don't want to tolerate the
performance
difference, simply arrange for each process to produce a separate output
file (or otherwise use separate resources).
-@code{xargs} also allows you to ``turn up'' or ``turn down'' its parallelism
+@code{xargs} also allows ``turning up'' or ``turning down'' its parallelism
in the middle of a run. Suppose you are keeping your four-processor
system busy for hours, processing thousands of images using @code{-P 4}.
Now, in the middle of the run, you or someone else wants you to reduce
@@ -3155,8 +3155,8 @@ When the new database format is being used, the
compression technique
used to generate the database though relies on the ability to sort the
list of files before they are presented to @code{frcode}.
-If the system's sort command allows its input list of files to be
-separated with null characters via the @samp{-z} option, this option
+If the system's sort command allows separating its input list of
+files with null characters via the @samp{-z} option, this option
is used and therefore @code{updatedb} and @code{locate} will both
correctly handle file names containing newlines. If the @code{sort}
command lacks support for this, the list of files is delimited with
@@ -3198,7 +3198,7 @@ and a @file{.} entry which functions as a link to the
directory itself.
The @file{..} entry of the root directory also points to the root.
This means that @code{find} can deduce the number of subdirectories a
directory has, simply by subtracting 2 from the directory's link
-count. This allows @file{find} the calls to @code{stat} which would
+count. This allows @file{find} saving @code{stat} calls which would
otherwise be needed to discover which directory entries are
subdirectories.
@@ -3892,8 +3892,8 @@ at the end of the command line, while the destination
directory would
need to be specified last. We also can't use @code{xargs} in the
obvious way for the same reason. One way of working around this
problem is to make use of the special properties of GNU @code{mv}; it
-has a @code{-t} option that allows the target directory to be
-specified before the list of files to be moved. However, while this
+has a @code{-t} option that allows specifying the target directory
+before the list of files to be moved. However, while this
technique works for GNU @code{mv}, it doesn't solve the more general
problem.
@@ -3977,8 +3977,8 @@ expression used by @code{find} and @code{locate} is
almost identical to
that used in GNU Emacs. The single difference is that in @code{find}
and @code{locate}, a @samp{.} will match a newline character.
-Both @code{find} and @code{locate} provide an option which allows you
-to select an alternative regular expression syntax; for @code{find}
+Both @code{find} and @code{locate} provide an option which allows
+selecting an alternative regular expression syntax; for @code{find}
this is the @samp{-regextype} option, and for @code{locate} this is
the @samp{--regextype} option.
@@ -4542,9 +4542,9 @@ find /var/tmp/stuff -mtime +90 -exec /bin/rm @{@} \+
The above use of @samp{-exec} causes @code{find} to build up a long
command line and then issue it. This can be less efficient than some
-uses of @code{xargs}; for example @code{xargs} allows new command
-lines to be built up while the previous command is still executing, and
-allows you to specify a number of commands to run in parallel.
+uses of @code{xargs}; for example @code{xargs} allows building up
+new command lines while the previous command is still executing, and
+allows specifying a number of commands to run in parallel.
However, the @code{find @dots{} -exec @dots{} +} construct has the advantage
of wide portability. GNU findutils did not support @samp{-exec @dots{} +}
until version 4.2.12; one of the reasons for this is that it already
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