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bug #20552: Typos, ordering and formatting issues in find manpage

Submitted by:  James Youngman <jay>
Submitted on:  Sat 21 Jul 2007 12:42:58 PM UTC  
 
Category: documentationSeverity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: James Youngman <jay>
Originator Name: S.-H.ZimmermannOpen/Closed: Closed
Release: 4.3.8Fixed Release: 4.3.9

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Sat 21 Jul 2007 12:42:58 PM UTC, original submission:

From a post to the bug-findutils mailing list :-

Hi, all,
the find(1) manpage looks really good.
This is rather important, since that utility is not the easiest one
to understand and to use.

Some minor details which might be fixed:

EXPRESSIONS
-nouser
-nogroup
( -context ... non-standard extension, okay with me )
not in alphabetical order.

Same goes for
-ok
-print
-okdir
...
-ls

-execdir
"This IS a much more secure method"

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
-name:
period instead of comma in list in ().
Identical under HISTORY.
Other predicates:
"The POSIX standard requires that<very hard break>
The find utility shall detect ..."
Something is wrong wiith this sentence.
-perm /mode
even lower importance ...
a hyphen might be inserted before the name 'perm'
"... with the behaviour of perm -000"

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
NLSPATH
"internationalisation"
actually spelled with 'z', "internationalization"
(see LANG,LC_ALL above; that's why I18N has been invented).
LC_MESSAGES internationalised?

Splitting my last hairs now,
"use of the -exec option"
is actually an "action"
(several times; mostly called 'action', should be consistent).

I've seen those on manpages and
found them also e.g. at http://linux.die.net/man/1/find
but I'm not sure who is maintaining the genuine text
and who is copying from other resources.

Greetings
Sven

James Youngman <jay>
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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Sun 11 Nov 2007 07:46:13 PM UTCjayOpen/ClosedOpen=>Closed
      Fixed ReleaseNone=>4.3.9
    Sun 22 Jul 2007 01:47:26 PM UTCjayStatusIn Progress=>Fixed

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