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[src/trunk]: src/usr.bin/find Improve wording and macro usage; bump date.



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/3e3b23535db5
branches:  trunk
changeset: 779821:3e3b23535db5
user:      wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Wed Jun 20 17:55:06 2012 +0000

description:
Improve wording and macro usage; bump date.
>From Bug Hunting.

diffstat:

 usr.bin/find/find.1 |  21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diffs (73 lines):

diff -r b6ab7085479c -r 3e3b23535db5 usr.bin/find/find.1
--- a/usr.bin/find/find.1       Wed Jun 20 17:54:16 2012 +0000
+++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1       Wed Jun 20 17:55:06 2012 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: find.1,v 1.72 2012/03/22 07:58:18 wiz Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: find.1,v 1.73 2012/06/20 17:55:06 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"    from: @(#)find.1        8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
 .\"
-.Dd September 24, 2011
+.Dd June 17, 2012
 .Dt FIND 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -271,20 +271,20 @@
 .Pp
 If the list of arguments is terminated by a semicolon
 .Pq Dq Ic \&; ,
-then the
+then
 .Ar utility
 is invoked once per pathname.
 If
 the string
 .Dq Ic {}
-appears anywhere in the utility name or the arguments
+appears one or more times in the utility name or arguments,
 then it is replaced by the pathname of the current file
 (but it need not appear, in which case the pathname
-will not be passed to the
+will not be passed to
 .Ar utility ) .
 The semicolon-terminated form of the
 .Ic -exec
-primary returns true if and only if the
+primary returns true if and only if
 .Ar utility
 exits with a zero exit status.
 Note that the semicolon will have to be escaped on the shell command line
@@ -299,7 +299,8 @@
 .Xr xargs 1 .
 In this case the parameter
 .Dq Ic {}
-must appear as the last item in the argument list, just before the
+must appear, and must appear as the last item in the argument list,
+just before the
 .Dq Ic \&+
 parameter.
 Each set is limited to no more than 5,000 pathnames,
@@ -311,7 +312,7 @@
 primary always returns true.
 If the plus-terminated form of the
 .Ic -exec
-primary results in any invocation of the
+primary results in any invocation of
 .Ar utility
 exiting with non-zero exit status, then
 .Nm
@@ -498,7 +499,9 @@
 .Ic -exec
 primary, with the exception that
 .Nm
-requests user affirmation for the execution of the utility by printing
+requests user affirmation for the execution of
+.Ar utility
+by printing
 a message to the terminal and reading a response.
 If the response is other than
 .Dq y ,



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