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| author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2020-12-28 18:28:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2020-12-30 19:11:18 +0100 |
| commit | 558209430756df5c1fdfc59b45a58ed71a01c6cf (patch) | |
| tree | b556842631183844e863144f5ad2c3f1792059ce | |
| parent | ab3bb081baa74a6d23ab7728a010a51bd1585d5a (diff) | |
| download | findutils-558209430756df5c1fdfc59b45a58ed71a01c6cf.tar.gz | |
locate.1: improve formatting in BUGS section
* locate/locate.1 (.SH "BUGS"): Set 'locate' in bold, and the -z option
in italic.
| -rw-r--r-- | locate/locate.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/locate/locate.1 b/locate/locate.1 index e580a009..24ce7b5e 100644 --- a/locate/locate.1 +++ b/locate/locate.1 @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ locate \- list files in databases that match a pattern [\-p | \-\-print] [\-\-help] pattern... +. .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the GNU version of @@ -258,9 +259,11 @@ LL. .TE . .SH "BUGS" -The locate database correctly handles filenames containing newlines, +The +.B locate +database correctly handles filenames containing newlines, but only if the system's sort command has a working -\-z +.I \-z option. If you suspect that .B locate may need to return filenames containing newlines, consider using its |