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[Findutils-patches] [PATCH 5/6] doc: improve description of the -D optio
From: |
Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
[Findutils-patches] [PATCH 5/6] doc: improve description of the -D option in find.1 |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:47:14 +0100 |
* find/find.1 (-D): Change argument name from "debugoptions" to
"debugopts" to match the synopsis, thus making searching in the man
page easier. While at it, sort possible arguments alphabetically.
---
find/find.1 | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index f4e8473..cb2ff19 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ is, any symbolic links appearing after
on the
command line will be dereferenced, and those before it will not).
-.IP "\-D debugoptions"
+.IP "\-D debugopts"
Print diagnostic information; this can be helpful to diagnose problems
with why
.B find
@@ -211,10 +211,18 @@ options, see the output of
.BR help .
Valid debug options include
.RS
+.IP exec
+Show diagnostic information relating to \-exec, \-execdir, \-ok and \-okdir
.IP help
-Explain the debugging options
-.IP tree
-Show the expression tree in its original and optimised form.
+Explain the debugging options.
+.IP opt
+Prints diagnostic information relating to the optimisation of the
+expression tree; see the \-O option.
+.IP rates
+Prints a summary indicating how often each predicate succeeded or
+failed.
+.IP search
+Navigate the directory tree verbosely.
.IP stat
Print messages as files are examined with the
.B stat
@@ -223,12 +231,8 @@ and
system calls. The
.B find
program tries to minimise such calls.
-.IP opt
-Prints diagnostic information relating to the optimisation of the
-expression tree; see the \-O option.
-.IP rates
-Prints a summary indicating how often each predicate succeeded or
-failed.
+.IP tree
+Show the expression tree in its original and optimised form.
.RE
.IP \-Olevel
Enables query optimisation. The
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2.1.4
- [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 0/6]: usage change et al, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/02/16
- [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 3/6] maint: adjust .gitignore files, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/02/16
- [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 5/6] doc: improve description of the -D option in find.1,
Bernhard Voelker <=
- [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 6/6] build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/02/16
- [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 2/6] maint: add new bugreports.c to POTFILES.in, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/02/16
- [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 1/6] maint: avoid syntax-check failures, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/02/16
- [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 4/6] all: output full usage only when requested via the --help option, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/02/16
- Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 0/6]: usage change et al, James Youngman, 2016/02/21