patchfindutils - Patches: patch #3730, Audit of man pages with manual

 
 

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patch #3730: Audit of man pages with manual

Submitter:  Aaron Hawley <ashawley>
Submitted:  Wed 09 Feb 2005 07:58:46 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  documentation improvement Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  jay Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Fixed Release:  None

Mon 07 Aug 2006 10:13:35 AM UTC, comment #3: 

I've just actioned the "locate -S" change, which I think clears all these items up.   Thanks for all your help.

James Youngman <jay>
Group administrator
Wed 07 Dec 2005 08:06:21 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I'm refreshing myself on the work I had done in February. I recall a patch related to some other fixes but not one for reconciling the differences between the manual and man pages.

Looking quickly over my audit notes, the only glaring differences between the documentation formats are:

- The "Standards Coformance" section found only in find.1
- Some examples in the "Examples" section found only in find.1
- The "Examples" section used only in xargs.1
- The note, "the ouptut of locate -S is different for the GNU and BSD implementations of locate.", is only locate.1

In my perusal I've found some related and unrelated typos in the manual. I'll send them, shortly.

Aaron Hawley <ashawley>
Mon 05 Dec 2005 07:48:42 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I think this is resolved by the recent application of patch #3775.  Do you agree?

James Youngman <jay>
Group administrator
Wed 09 Feb 2005 07:58:46 PM UTC, original submission:  

Below is a summary of the differences and one conflict I've found between the find(1), locate(1), locatedb(5), updatedb(1) and xargs(1) man pages and the GNU findutils manual (edition 4.2.16, dated 6 February 2005 and CVS revision 1.71 of file find.texi).

This is based on a request made by James Youngman to the proofreaders list.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/proofreaders/2004-10/msg00006.html

Aaron Hawley <ashawley>

 

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file #8391:  findutils-manpages.tar.gz added by ashawley (46KiB - application/x-gzip - Tarball of man pages in text and nroff with references to findutils user manual.)

 

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Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
2006-08-07 jay Open/ClosedOpen Closed
2005-12-05 jay Assigned toNone jay
2005-02-09 ashawley Attached File- Added findutils-manpages.tar.gz, #4165

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