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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-10-11 11:46:05 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-10-11 11:46:05 +0000
commita266524fa01688e1c036cf0c5695b22836600d36 (patch)
tree827d993ee187a071ea63473d2788057cd06c249e /usr.bin/find
parentf3094e416d84aed0e81ae1298a8659f816f037e3 (diff)
in EXAMPLES:
- make the first example positive (we have enough using `!') - remove second example (it is too similar to others) - remove `-print' from all examples - put the examples in a more logical order - no need to escape dot, as otto points out i have been escaping it needlessly for years ;( ok otto
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/find')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/find/find.127
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
index 40139aef18b..2bf62dfb081 100644
--- a/usr.bin/find/find.1
+++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.61 2006/10/11 10:03:28 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.62 2006/10/11 11:46:04 jmc Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -508,39 +508,32 @@ arguments to
.Nm find ,
i.e. they should be separated by whitespace.
.Sh EXAMPLES
-Print out a list of all the files whose names do not end in
+Print out a list of all the files whose names end in
.Dq \&.c :
.Pp
-.Dl "$ find / \e! -name '*.c' -print"
-.Pp
-Print out a list of all the files owned by user
-.Dq wnj
-that are newer than the file
-.Dq ttt :
-.Pp
-.Dl "$ find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print"
+.Dl "$ find / -name '*.c'"
.Pp
Print out a list of all the files which are not both newer than
.Dq ttt
and owned by
.Dq wnj :
.Pp
-.Dl "$ find / \e! \e( -newer ttt -user wnj \e) -print"
-.Pp
-Find and remove all *.jpg files in the current working directory:
-.Pp
-.Dl "$ find . -name \e*\e.jpg -exec rm {} \e;"
+.Dl "$ find / \e! \e( -newer ttt -user wnj \e)"
.Pp
Print out a list of all core files on local file systems:
.Pp
-.Dl "$ find / \e! -fstype local -prune -or -name '*.core' -print"
+.Dl "$ find / \e! -fstype local -prune -or -name '*.core'"
.Pp
Find all files in
.Pa /usr/src
ending in a dot and single digit, but skip directory
.Pa /usr/src/gnu :
.Pp
-.Dl "$ find /usr/src -path /usr/src/gnu -prune -or -name \e*\e.[0-9]"
+.Dl "$ find /usr/src -path /usr/src/gnu -prune -or -name \e*.[0-9]"
+.Pp
+Find and remove all *.jpg files in the current working directory:
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ find . -name \e*.jpg -exec rm {} \e;"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chflags 1 ,
.Xr chmod 1 ,