Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:28:54 -0700 Evan Silberman <[email protected]> > Speaking of the first sentence of rm(1):
Where is that discussion happening, how is it concerning the rm(1) manual page? > Remove extraneous word from command description What is the rationale for this, is it entirely missing or undisclosed publicly? > "non-directory files" reads more naturally and means the same thing as > "non-directory type files". > > diff --git a/bin/rm/rm.1 b/bin/rm/rm.1 > index a2526a36392..1be2bf31913 100644 > --- a/bin/rm/rm.1 > +++ b/bin/rm/rm.1 > @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ > .Sh DESCRIPTION > The > .Nm > -utility attempts to remove the non-directory type files specified on the > +utility attempts to remove the non-directory files specified on the > command line. > If the permissions of the file do not permit writing, and the standard > input device is a terminal, the user is prompted (on the standard error > Hi Evan, Read carefully these pages, they include file types sections that explain well: https://man.openbsd.org/find.1#type https://man.openbsd.org/stat.2 why directories are file types too, and the wording for that particular matter: https://man.openbsd.org/rm.1 https://man.netbsd.org/rm.1 https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rm https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/rm-invocation.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/rm.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2016edition/utilities/rm.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2013edition/utilities/rm.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2008edition/utilities/rm.html Do all manual pages need to be free form texts to suit non-technical audiences? -- Kind regards, Anton Lazarov MScEng EECSIT
