Package: findutils
Version: 4.2.22-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The man page has a few errors which I have spotted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.31
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information
--- find.1.orig 2005-07-14 21:51:12.000000000 -0400
+++ find.1      2005-07-14 22:02:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
 was last accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match 
 .B \-atime 
 .BR +1 ,
-a file has to have been modified at least 
+a file has to have been accessed at least 
 .I two
 days ago.
 .IP "\-cmin \fIn\fR"
@@ -1041,15 +1041,15 @@
 
 .P
 .nf
-.B find /  \t( \-perm +4000 \-fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\en' ) , \e
-.B         \t\t( \-size +100M \-fprintf /root/big.txt  '%\-10s %p\en'  )
+.B find /  \t\e( \-perm +4000 \-fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\en' \e) , \e
+.B       \t\t\e( \-size +100M \-fprintf /root/big.txt  '%\-10s %p\en' \e)
 
 .fi
 Traverse the filesystem just once, listing setuid files and
 directories into
 .B /root/suid.txt
 and large files into 
-.BR /root/big/txt .
+.BR /root/big.txt .
 
 .P
 .nf
@@ -1058,9 +1058,9 @@
 .fi
 Search for files in your home directory which have been modified in
 the last twenty-four hours.  This command works this way because the
-time since each file was last accessed is divided by 24 hours and any 
+time since each file was last modified is divided by 24 hours and any 
 remainder is discarded.  That means that to match 
-.B -atime 
+.B -mtime 
 .BR 0 ,
 a file will have to have a modification in the past which is less than
 24 hours ago.
@@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@
 
 .fi
 Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner,
-and group, but which the rest of the world can read but not write to,
+and group, and which the rest of the world can read,
 without regard to the presence of any extra permission bits (for
 example the executable bit).  This will match a file which has mode
 0777, for example.

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