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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-02-03 00:08:16 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-02-03 00:08:16 +0000
commit3b153c576e754fad328b3231a2ac8a2362695d7a (patch)
treee15fe7a6a575e68a5571843bde3b9e316e7eff74 /usr.bin/find
parent6cce51ea766d2b0ba628e885a834e1d46a36a32e (diff)
make it clear that -iname supports globbing;
refer to glob(7) for more precision; add some relevant and remove some not so relevant .Xrs; ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/find')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/find/find.146
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
index ec55eb2c20b..fa9211bf7b5 100644
--- a/usr.bin/find/find.1
+++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.76 2009/12/20 20:19:49 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.77 2010/02/03 00:08:15 schwarze Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)find.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 20 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 3 2010 $
.Dt FIND 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -271,10 +271,9 @@ is numeric and there is no such group name, then
.Ar gname
is treated as a group ID.
.It Ic -iname Ar pattern
-True if the last component of the pathname being examined
-matches
-.Ar pattern .
-Case insensitive.
+Identical to the
+.Ic -name
+primary except that the matching is done in a case insensitive manner.
.It Ic -inum Ar n
True if the file has inode number
.Ar n .
@@ -314,18 +313,9 @@ was started, rounded up to the next full 24-hour period, is
24-hour periods.
.It Ic -name Ar pattern
True if the last component of the pathname being examined matches
-.Ar pattern .
-Special shell pattern matching characters
-.Pf ( Ql [ ,
-.Ql \&] ,
-.Ql * ,
-and
-.Ql \&? )
-may be used as part of
-.Ar pattern .
-These characters may be matched explicitly by escaping them with a
-backslash
-.Pq Ql \e .
+.Ar pattern ,
+which may use any of the special characters documented in
+.Xr glob 7 .
.It Ic -newer Ar file
True if the current file has a more recent last modification time than
.Ar file .
@@ -354,18 +344,9 @@ value of the
expression is false.
.It Ic -path Ar pattern
True if the pathname being examined matches
-.Ar pattern .
-Special shell pattern matching characters
-.Pf ( Ql [ ,
-.Ql \&] ,
-.Ql * ,
-and
-.Ql \&? )
-may be used as part of
-.Ar pattern .
-These characters may be matched explicitly by escaping them with a
-backslash
-.Pq Ql \e .
+.Ar pattern ,
+which may use any of the special characters documented in
+.Xr glob 7 .
Slashes
.Pq Ql /
are treated as normal characters and do not have to be
@@ -553,14 +534,13 @@ or
.Xr chflags 1 ,
.Xr chmod 1 ,
.Xr locate 1 ,
+.Xr ls 1 ,
.Xr whereis 1 ,
.Xr which 1 ,
.Xr xargs 1 ,
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr fts 3 ,
-.Xr getgrent 3 ,
-.Xr getpwent 3 ,
-.Xr strmode 3 ,
+.Xr glob 7 ,
.Xr symlink 7
.Sh STANDARDS
The