On 03/13/13 19:17, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
Alexander Hall <alexan...@beard.se> writes:
find(1) claims -follow is the same as -H, which is wrong.
Indeed, but this confusion is present twice in the manpage.
I don't know the history myself, but I can only assume the switch went
wrong in r1.14, where it was changed from '-s' to '-H', the former of
which I cannot see any trace of in the sources at all.
Unless someone has opinions on the historical correctness, I'll commit
with this bit too.
More OK's are obviously still fine as well. :-)
/Alexander
OK?
/Alexander
Index: find.1
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/find/find.1,v
retrieving revision 1.85
diff -u -p -r1.85 find.1
--- find.1 5 Jan 2012 13:16:10 -0000 1.85
+++ find.1 13 Mar 2013 17:30:33 -0000
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ flags specified exactly match those of t
.It Ic -follow
This primary always evaluates to true.
The same as specifying the
-.Fl H
+.Fl L
option.
.Pp
.It Ic -fstype Ar type
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ primary was inspired by GNU find.
.Pp
Historically, the
.Fl d ,
-.Fl H ,
+.Fl L ,
and
.Fl x
options were implemented using the primaries
