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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:14:53 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Isabell Long <issyl0@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r236860 - head/usr.bin/find
Message-ID:  <201206102214.q5AMErBQ024480@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: issyl0 (doc committer)
Date: Sun Jun 10 22:14:52 2012
New Revision: 236860
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/236860

Log:
  Add more description and clarification about the -depth and -d options in
  both places where they are mentioned in find(1).
  
  Discussed with:	dougb
  PR:		docs/168885
  Reported by:	Ronald F. Guilmette (rfg at tristatelogic dot com)
  Approved by:	gabor (mentor)
  MFC after:	3 days

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/find/find.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/find/find.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/find/find.1	Sun Jun 10 20:24:01 2012	(r236859)
+++ head/usr.bin/find/find.1	Sun Jun 10 22:14:52 2012	(r236860)
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Note, the default is
 .Em not
 a breadth-first traversal.
 .Pp
-This option is equivalent to the
+This option is the BSD-specific equivalent of the
 .Ic -depth
 primary of
 .St -p1003.1-2001 .
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Please refer to the
 .Ic -atime
 primary description for information on supported time units.
 .It Ic -d
-Same as
+Non-portable, BSD-specific version of
 .Ic depth .
 GNU find implements this as a primary in mistaken emulation of
 .Fx
@@ -325,9 +325,10 @@ primary will fail to delete a directory 
 Following symlinks is incompatible with this option.
 .It Ic -depth
 Always true;
-same as the
+same as the non-portable
 .Fl d
-option.
+option.  Refer to the primary description of
+.Ic -depth for full information.
 .It Ic -depth Ar n
 True if the depth of the file relative to the starting point of the traversal
 is



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