Changeset 2da001c1 for chapter08/findutils.xml

Timestamp:

12/10/2022 05:37:17 PM (17 months ago)

Author:

David Bryant <davidbryant@…>

Branches:

11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

9729cec

Parents:

daad59e

Message:

Clarified the description of what the programs in this package do.
Added a note about xargs. Corrected English idiom.

File:

• chapter08/findutils.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/findutils.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs
-    are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
+    <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Programs
+    are provided to search through all the files in a directory tree and to
     create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive
-    find, but is unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
+    find, but unreliable unless the database has been updated recently).
+    Findutils also supplies the <command>xargs</command> program, which
+    can be used to run a specified command on each file selected by a search.</para>
 
     <segmentedlist>
@@ -64 +66 @@
         <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
-          database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
-          which is FHS-compliant.</para>
+          <para>This option moves the <command>locate</command>
+          database to <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
+          which is the FHS-compliant location.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>