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diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
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--- a/usr.bin/find/find.1
+++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.42 2004/02/24 07:20:38 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.43 2005/02/07 20:45:40 jaredy Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -40,13 +40,13 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm find
.Op Fl dHhLWXx
-.Op Fl f Ar file
-.Ar file Op Ar ...
+.Op Fl f Ar path
+.Ar path ...\&
.Op Ar expression
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
recursively descends the directory tree for each
-.Ar file
+.Ar path
listed, evaluating an
.Ar expression
(composed of the
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ visits directories in pre-order, i.e., before their contents.
Note, the default is
.Em not
a breadth-first traversal.
-.It Fl f Ar file
+.It Fl f Ar path
Specifies a file hierarchy for
.Nm
to traverse.
@@ -493,31 +493,36 @@ Primaries which themselves take arguments expect each argument
to be a separate argument to
.Nm find .
.Sh EXAMPLES
-The following examples are shown as given to the shell:
-.Bl -tag -width findx
-.It Li "$ find / \e! -name '*.c' -print"
Print out a list of all the files whose names do not end in
-.Dq \&.c .
-.It Li "$ find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print"
+.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 .
-.It Li "$ find / \e! \e( -newer ttt -user wnj \e) -print"
+that are newer than the file
+.Dq ttt :
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print"
+.Pp
Print out a list of all the files which are not both newer than
.Dq ttt
and owned by
-.Dq wnj .
-.It Li "$ find / \e( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \e) -print"
+.Dq wnj :
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ find / \e! \e( -newer ttt -user wnj \e) -print"
+.Pp
Print out a list of all the files that are either owned by
.Dq wnj
or
that are newer than
-.Dq ttt .
-.It Li "$ find / \e! -fstype local -prune -or -name '*.core' -print"
-Print out a list of all core files on local file systems.
-.El
+.Dq ttt :
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ find / \e( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \e) -print"
+.Pp
+Print out a list of all core files on local file systems:
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ find / \e! -fstype local -prune -or -name '*.core' -print"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chflags 1 ,
.Xr chmod 1 ,