Bug 126098
| Summary: | Diff for confusing worded man page | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Mike MacCana <mmaccana> | ||||
| Component: | findutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 4.1.20-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-06-25 15:21:03 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 101179 [details]
Fixes ambiguity in man page
Thank you! Yes, I agree with your interpretation, although I had to read it out loud a couple of times! I've built this as findutils-4.1.20-1 in Fedora development, and it will be included in a future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. |
Description of problem: The man page for the find command is confusingly worded. Extract: -size n[bckw] File uses n units of space. The units are 512-byte blocks by default or if âbâ follows n, bytes if âcâ follows n, kilobytes if âkâ follows n ... This is a little confusing - its possible the sentence could mean "if b follows n then this will show bytes", which isn't correct. Some brackets would clear up the ambiguity: -size n[bckw] File uses n units of space. The units are 512-byte blocks by default (or if âbâ follows n), bytes if âcâ follows n, kilobytes if âkâ follows n ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1.7-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.man find 2.search for block options Actual results: Man page is confusing Expected results: It should be less so Additional info: Diff attached.