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authorBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>2020-12-30 00:22:51 +0100
committerBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>2020-12-30 19:11:18 +0100
commitee762768333decffcb162446038ca99bc63d0c92 (patch)
tree45b4857bd511af50c0f78091ad66f96b1cd86410
parent37079c08f27ae79d35df4d6941d6a48a6a011ed0 (diff)
downloadfindutils-ee762768333decffcb162446038ca99bc63d0c92.tar.gz
find.1: set filenames in italics
man-pages(7) says: Filenames [...] are always in italics, except in the SYNOPSIS section, [...] Set filenames in italics, respectively change from boldface to italics. While at it, mark whitespaces in commands as non-breakable via '\ ' to avoid unwanted hyphenation in the middle of commands. * find/find.1 (-regex): Do the above. (-exec,-execdir,-fprint): Likewise.
-rw-r--r--find/find.126
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index 11115257..bee979ed 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -961,7 +961,8 @@ information held on the server.
File name matches regular expression
.IR pattern .
This is a match on the whole path, not a search.
-For example, to match a file named `./fubar3',
+For example, to match a file named
+.IR ./fubar3,
you can use the regular expression `.*bar.\&' or `.*b.*3',
but not `f.*r3'.
The regular expressions understood by
@@ -1201,9 +1202,9 @@ returns a non-zero exit status. If
encounters an error, this can sometimes cause an
immediate exit, so some pending commands may not be run
at all. For this reason
-.B \-exec my-command ... {} \e+ \-quit
+.B \-exec\ \fImy-command\fP\ ...\ {}\ +\ \-quit
may not result in
-.B my-command
+.I my-command
actually being run. This variant of
.B \-exec
always returns true.
@@ -1251,13 +1252,9 @@ The result of the action depends on whether the
or the
.B ;
variant is being used;
-.B \-execdir
-.I command
-.B {} +
+.B \-execdir\ \fIcommand\fP\ {}\ +
always returns true, while
-.B \-execdir
-.I command
-.B {} ;
+.B \-execdir\ \fIcommand\fP\ {}\ ;
returns true only if
.I command
returns 0.
@@ -1279,8 +1276,11 @@ True; print the full file name into file
.IR file .
If \fIfile\fR
does not exist when \fBfind\fR is run, it is created; if it does
-exist, it is truncated. The file names `/dev/stdout' and
-`/dev/stderr' are handled specially; they refer to the standard
+exist, it is truncated. The file names
+.I /dev/stdout
+and
+.I /dev/stderr
+are handled specially; they refer to the standard
output and standard error output, respectively.
The output file is always created, even if the predicate is never matched.
See the
@@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ Like
but ask the user first. If the user agrees, run the command. Otherwise
just return false. If the command is run, its standard input is redirected
from
-.BR /dev/null .
+.IR /dev/null .
.IP
The response to the prompt is matched against a pair of regular
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ but ask the user first in the same way as for
.BR \-ok .
If the user does not agree, just return false.
If the command is run, its standard input is redirected from
-.BR /dev/null .
+.IR /dev/null .
.IP \-print
True; print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a