Commit Graph

70 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
James Youngman
48012b9961 Added guidance on some of the error messages. Not the most common
ones, but the ones where the user might most benefit from some handy
hints or an explanation of what is going on.
2004-11-21 22:18:17 +00:00
James Youngman
7f3a7ab183 Updated texinfo.tex 2004-11-21 21:38:45 +00:00
James Youngman
34324828f8 Implemented xargs --arg-file 2004-11-21 17:57:51 +00:00
James Youngman
7965eeaf0b Indicate that the '-' flag does work for most fields. 2004-11-21 09:32:26 +00:00
James Youngman
743a7b4f78 Tell the reader that format flags may not work as they expect. 2004-11-19 22:23:07 +00:00
James Youngman
8d80aa8060 Use @ref not @xref for a reference at the beginning of a sentence. 2004-11-15 01:25:48 +00:00
James Youngman
4820dc7776 Implemented BSD option -P and also the correct defautl behaviour of find with respect to symlinks if neither -L nor -H is specified [i.e. same as -P] 2004-11-12 00:08:44 +00:00
James Youngman
2d3fe220c2 Implemented -H and -L options. 2004-11-11 21:09:29 +00:00
James Youngman
9a09125d20 Implemented %M and %A+ format specifiers 2004-11-10 23:12:36 +00:00
James Youngman
6adc376765 Documented the fact that only %d and %m format specifiers honour the various formatting flags 2004-11-10 22:44:07 +00:00
James Youngman
153ea45680 Point out that xargs -i only splits input items at newlines 2004-11-08 21:34:27 +00:00
James Youngman
b042992963 Turn warning messages off by default if stdin is not a tty; allow these to be controlled explicitly by options -warn and -nowarn 2004-11-08 20:40:51 +00:00
James Youngman
e0058474fe Added option --findoptions to updatedb 2004-11-08 00:45:43 +00:00
James Youngman
91d4d34e78 Increased the default argument length and improved POSIX compliance of the handling of out-of-range values for the -s option 2004-11-08 00:01:19 +00:00
James Youngman
9cdc4723aa Documented locate's --limit option 2004-11-07 22:33:50 +00:00
James Youngman
3d86695fc9 Documented --wholename and --basename and updated the NEWS file 2004-11-06 10:25:16 +00:00
James Youngman
a1cfa3214c Documented new locate option --null and newline handling 2004-11-06 09:45:33 +00:00
James Youngman
a92947512b Documented the behaviour of -daystart and -follow in more detail 2004-10-31 19:49:58 +00:00
James Youngman
c8cef3c722 Use @direntry instead of hard-coding START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY inside @ifinfo. 2004-10-31 17:01:55 +00:00
James Youngman
416d02a629 Implemented the -quit action 2004-10-30 20:23:18 +00:00
James Youngman
71af66f9ae Refactored time handling routines in preparation for support of absolute timestamp comparison predicates 2004-10-30 19:08:03 +00:00
James Youngman
1b7af518ec Added -delete action (Savannah patch #3454 with additions) 2004-10-30 17:30:55 +00:00
James Youngman
32958c140e Support -printf %D, which prints the device number of the containing filesystem 2004-10-25 21:39:12 +00:00
James Youngman
e2bea8f503 Use gnulib-tool --import to import the gnulib code, rather than the odd way we were doing it before 2004-10-24 22:43:13 +00:00
James Youngman
669a973261 Syntax corrections. 2004-10-22 19:47:20 +00:00
James Youngman
2121a9e456 Indicate that "-exec {}+" is not yet supported. 2004-10-22 19:46:03 +00:00
James Youngman
08c1c8e4fe The -name predicate must allow '*' to match '.foo' as demanded by IEEE
Std 1003.2-1992 Interpretation #126.
2004-10-22 19:38:02 +00:00
James Youngman
790c797293 Deprecate -path and -ipath in favour of -wholename and -iwholename 2004-08-08 12:24:01 +00:00
James Youngman
13848aaa0c Documented -ignore_readdir_race and -noignore_readdir_race 2004-05-03 09:49:13 +00:00
James Youngman
dc64200bb7 Actioned Savannah bug #8558 (find complains when it tries to recurse
into directories that it had removed).
2004-04-13 21:57:57 +00:00
James Youngman
db92fd6530 Improved the documentation for the %k and %b format specifiers to
-printf (Savannah bug #5034).  Also pointed out that this handling is
different to that used by the "b" and "k" suffixes with "-size".
2004-01-03 21:16:21 +00:00
James Youngman
74ef055ec2 Indicate that xargs stops immediately if a command exits with status 255 2003-06-21 09:15:15 +00:00
James Youngman
b8b8557389 Applied patch 1498 (documenting the backslash escape sequence) 2003-06-16 14:09:39 +00:00
James Youngman
3a9f0b466c Applied Savannah patch #1547 (document the fact that printf
field-width specifiers are supported).
2003-06-16 13:51:26 +00:00
James Youngman
7da8b17cf1 Merged changes made for version 4.1.20 onto the trunk 2003-06-14 15:41:26 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
324585802b Updates mostly from gettext-0.10.38 2001-06-09 19:51:01 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
29ece6a845 *** empty log message *** 2001-06-09 16:53:14 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
7c9544e4e1 * doc/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): add find.cps, which is
created by dvips.  This should be taken care of by automake, but
the code is commented out.
2001-06-09 16:10:52 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
c67ad03c66 files created by new automake/autoconf. 2001-06-05 06:15:14 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
fb5511f83c * doc/mdate-sh: removed file in doc directory. It now exists only
in top_srcdir, but this changed required a patch to automake.
2001-06-05 06:06:06 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
c1690144b6 *** empty log message *** 2001-05-20 21:08:19 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
db3455c712 * doc/find.texi (Type): -D option (for Solaris door files) is
documented
2001-05-20 19:45:13 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
cc934f2e95 *** empty log message *** 2001-05-03 06:54:56 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
1a8b8711fd * doc/find.texi (Adding Tests): Place space in "#! /bin/sh". 2001-01-21 06:39:50 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
700e44333c * locate/code.c (main), doc/find.texi: improve handling of
non-ASCII characters used old format.
2000-10-30 07:32:52 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
9efb9cbaa8 *** empty log message *** 2000-10-09 23:43:59 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
304f7db079 * doc/find.info*: removed from repository 2000-10-09 22:13:04 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
3e448c1f26 * doc/find.texi: add documentation for "-i" option. 2000-10-09 21:58:25 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
8aa2b95088 * doc/find.texi (Directories): changed wording for "-prune". 2000-05-13 11:36:24 +00:00
Kevin Dalley
491aaa41f5 *** empty log message *** 2000-04-12 10:18:08 +00:00