Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.0-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/find.1.gz' 
and '/usr/share/man/man1/xargs.1.gz', see attached '.diff' files.

Hope this helps...

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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

findutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages findutils suggests:
ii  locate                        4.4.0-3    maintain and query an index of a d
ii  mlocate                       0.21.1-2   quickly find files on the filesyst

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--- find.1      2009-03-01 13:29:25.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/find.1 2009-04-23 05:09:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -1698,7 +1698,7 @@
 by default, because POSIX requires that apart from
 the output for 
 .BR \-ok ,
-all messages printed on stderr are diagnositcs and must result in a
+all messages printed on stderr are diagnostics and must result in a
 non-zero exit status.
 .IP
 When POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set, 

--- xargs.1	2009-03-01 13:29:25.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/xargs.1	2009-04-23 05:10:37.000000000 -0400
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
 standard, but do not appear in the 2004 version of the standard.
 Therefore you should use \-L and \-I instead, respectively.
 .P
-The POSIX stadard allows implementations to have a limit on the size
+The POSIX standard allows implementations to have a limit on the size
 of arguments to the 
 .B exec 
 functions.  This limit could be as low as 4096 bytes including the size of the

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