Package: findutils Version: 4.2.20-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/find.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages findutils depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
--- - 2005-06-10 00:51:50.185250000 -0400 +++ /tmp/find1.gz.25897 2005-06-10 00:51:50.000000000 -0400 @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ used. .IP "\-atime \fIn\fR" File was last accessed \fIn\fR*24 hours ago. -When find figures out how many 24-hour preiods ago the file +When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match .B \-atime .BR +1 , @@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ If \-depth is given, false; no effect. .IP "\-quit" -Exit immediately. No child proceses will be left running, but no more +Exit immediately. No child processes will be left running, but no more paths specified on the command line will be processed. For example, .B find /tmp/foo /tmp/bar \-print \-quit will print only @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ .I chdir() on the symbolic link, so this diagnostic is frequently not necessary. .P -The \-d option is supported for comatibility with various BSD systems, +The \-d option is supported for compatibility with various BSD systems, but you should use the POSIX-compliant predicate \-depth instead. .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" .IP LANG @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ .IP NLSPATH Determines the location of the internationalisation message catalogues. .IP PATH -Affects the directores which are searched to find the executables +Affects the directories which are searched to find the executables invoked by `\-exec' and `\-ok'. .IP POSIXLY_CORRECT Determines the block size used by `-ls'. @@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ .B find . -perm +222 .fi -Search for files which are writeable by somebody (their owner, or +Search for files which are writable by somebody (their owner, or their group, or anybody else). .P @@ -1027,8 +1027,8 @@ All three of these commands do the same thing, but the first one uses the octal representation of the file mode, and the other two use the symbolic form. These commands all search for files which are -writeable by either their owner or their group. The files don't have -to be writeable by both the owner and group to be matched; either will +writable by either their owner or their group. The files don't have +to be writable by both the owner and group to be matched; either will do. .P @@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ .fi Both these commands do the same thing; search for files which are -writeable by both their owner and their group. +writable by both their owner and their group.
