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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-08-12 07:25:34 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-08-12 07:25:34 +0000
commitfc2bee47883a44f23e75b87314eda2cbea1c358d (patch)
tree1922e7470fddfc761e5f5634e610aa172cbfe2e2 /usr.bin/locate
parent7b081849ec7d3d5daff9361cc580441b32e34bc2 (diff)
fix numerous grammer issues
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/locate')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.156
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1 b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
index bbc81305709..77d12112b85 100644
--- a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
+++ b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: locate.1,v 1.5 1996/10/20 00:52:56 michaels Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: locate.1,v 1.6 1998/08/12 07:25:33 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin.
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)locate.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
-.\" $Id: locate.1,v 1.5 1996/10/20 00:52:56 michaels Exp $
+.\" $Id: locate.1,v 1.6 1998/08/12 07:25:33 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 6, 1993
.Dt LOCATE 1
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
.Op Fl d Ar database
pattern ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Locate
+.Nm locate
searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified
.Ar pattern .
The database is recomputed periodically (usually weekly or daily),
@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ including slashes (``/'').
As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'')
is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.
-Historically, locate store only characters between 32 and 127. The
-current implementation store any character except newline ('\\n') and
-NUL ('\\0'). The 8-bit character support don't wast extra space for
-plain ASCII file names. Characters less than 32 or greather than 127
-are stored in 2 bytes.
+Historically, locate stores only characters between 32 and 127. The
+current implementation store all characters except newline ('\\n') and
+NUL ('\\0'). The 8-bit character support does not waste extra space for
+plain ASCII file names. Characters less than 32 or greather than 127
+are stored as 2 bytes.
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width 10n indent
@@ -178,40 +178,42 @@ option was specified.
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
may fail to list some files that are present, or may
-to list files that have been removed from the system. This is because
-locate only reports files that are present in the database, which is
-typically only regenerated once a week by the
+list files that have been removed from the system. This is because
+.Nm
+only reports files that are present in a periodically reconstructed
+database (typically rebuilt once a week by the
.Pa /etc/weekly
-script. Use
+script).
+Use
.Xr find 1
to locate files that are of a more transitory nature.
+The
.Nm
-database was built by user
-.Dq nobody .
-.Xr find 1
-skip directories,
-which are not readable for user
+database is built by user
+.Dq nobody
+using
+.Xr find 1 .
+This will
+skip directories which are not readable by user
.Dq nobody ,
group
.Dq nobody ,
or
-world. E.g. if your HOME directory ist not world-readable, all your
-files are
+the world.
+E.g. if your HOME directory is not world-readable, your files will
.Ar not
-in the database.
+appear in the database.
The
.Nm
-database is not byte order independ. It is not possible
+database is not byte order independent. It is not possible
to share the databases between machines with different byte order.
-The current
+The current
.Nm
-implementation understand databases in host byte order or
-network byte order. So you can read on a FreeBSD/i386 machine
-(little endian)
-a locate database which was built on SunOS/sparc machine
-(big endian, net).
+implementation understands databases in host byte order or
+network byte order. So a little-endian machine can understand
+a locate database which was built on an big-endian machine.
.Sh HISTORY
The