[bug #22920] Typo in manpage regarding \0 escape

[Andreas Metzler]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22920>

                 Summary: Typo in manpage regarding \0 escape
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ametzler
            Submitted on: Dienstag 15.04.2008 um 19:43
                Category: documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Ph. Marek
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

This is http://bugs.debian.org/476218 reported by Ph. Marek:

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There's a bug in the manual page regarding the escape sequences; it's not
"\", it's "\0".
[...]

Here's a patch:


# diff -u find.1.orig find.1
--- find.1.orig 2008-04-03 19:41:22.000000000 +0200
+++ find.1      2008-04-15 08:51:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@
 Horizontal tab.
 .IP \ev
 Vertical tab.
-.IP \e\0
+.IP \e0
 ASCII NUL.
 .IP \e\e
 A literal backslash (`\e').

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thanks, cu andreas






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