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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2011-02-13 12:35:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2011-02-13 12:35:03 +0000 |
| commit | b70e32819272dfcf5649fa7a74f422679df0645e (patch) | |
| tree | c76709535fd379c8c5f9f4bff97aab9670b5c1e3 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 2670a7d9f34100c292ff1cd01ac78479a0725c4e (diff) | |
As noticed by Clint Pachl <pachl at ecentryx dot com>,
it is easy to miss a blank character in an example,
so explicitely state that whitespace causes the issue;
while here, mention that shell metacharacters cause danger as well;
ok otto@ sthen@ jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/find/find.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1 index 0dd9577a082..fe6c637b0e3 100644 --- a/usr.bin/find/find.1 +++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.81 2010/09/29 07:44:56 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.82 2011/02/13 12:35:02 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: September 29 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2011 $ .Dt FIND 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -643,7 +643,8 @@ and .Ql \&; may have to be escaped from the shell. .Pp -Passing the output of +As file names may contain whitespace and shell metacharacters, +passing the output of .Nm to other programs requires some care: .Pp |