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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Burgess <matthew.s.burgess@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing word 'about' in man page for 'find'
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 16:14:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgNAkiNFXdvSFWJOENLW+=B6s+S6LSWUgnAOej6a3wfc5VC=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMOczyyTJXaYS473-XpUbP9nCQLdVeCuJMydD7=4HR2W28FT5g@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Matthew,

Bugs in the find(1) manual page need to be reported to the location shown in:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html#COLOPHON

Thanks,

Michael

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 09:49, Matthew Burgess
<matthew.s.burgess@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The third sentence of the description of the -P option in the man page
> for 'find' starts:
>
> "When find examines or prints information a file..."
>
> But I think it should be:
>
> "When find examines or prints information about a file..."
>
> This error is present in the version of the man page at
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-07 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07  8:49 Missing word 'about' in man page for 'find' Matthew Burgess
2020-02-07 15:14 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]

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