svn commit: r236860 - head/usr.bin/find
Isabell Long
issyl0 at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 10 22:14:53 UTC 2012
Author: issyl0 (doc committer)
Date: Sun Jun 10 22:14:52 2012
New Revision: 236860
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/236860
Log:
Add more description and clarification about the -depth and -d options in
both places where they are mentioned in find(1).
Discussed with: dougb
PR: docs/168885
Reported by: Ronald F. Guilmette (rfg at tristatelogic dot com)
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Modified:
head/usr.bin/find/find.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/find/find.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/find/find.1 Sun Jun 10 20:24:01 2012 (r236859)
+++ head/usr.bin/find/find.1 Sun Jun 10 22:14:52 2012 (r236860)
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Note, the default is
.Em not
a breadth-first traversal.
.Pp
-This option is equivalent to the
+This option is the BSD-specific equivalent of the
.Ic -depth
primary of
.St -p1003.1-2001 .
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Please refer to the
.Ic -atime
primary description for information on supported time units.
.It Ic -d
-Same as
+Non-portable, BSD-specific version of
.Ic depth .
GNU find implements this as a primary in mistaken emulation of
.Fx
@@ -325,9 +325,10 @@ primary will fail to delete a directory
Following symlinks is incompatible with this option.
.It Ic -depth
Always true;
-same as the
+same as the non-portable
.Fl d
-option.
+option. Refer to the primary description of
+.Ic -depth for full information.
.It Ic -depth Ar n
True if the depth of the file relative to the starting point of the traversal
is
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