From: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> Filenames in italic Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> --- man1/intro.1 | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man1/intro.1 b/man1/intro.1 index 0caa0c4..216445e 100644 --- a/man1/intro.1 +++ b/man1/intro.1 @@ -200,14 +200,21 @@ Here it finds Maja's telephone number. Files live in a large tree, the file hierarchy. Each has a .I "pathname" -describing the path from the root of the tree (which is called /) +describing the path from the root of the tree (which is called +.IR / ) to the file. -For example, such a full pathname might be /home/aeb/tel. +For example, such a full pathname might be +.IR /home/aeb/tel . Always using full pathnames would be inconvenient, and the name of a file in the current directory may be abbreviated by giving only the last component. -That is why "/home/aeb/tel" can be abbreviated -to "tel" when the current directory is "/home/aeb". +That is why +.I /home/aeb/tel +can be abbreviated +to +.I tel +when the current directory is +.IR /home/aeb . .LP The command .I pwd @@ -231,7 +238,10 @@ The command (with a rather baroque syntax) will find files with given name or other properties. For example, "find . \-name tel" would find -the file "tel" starting in the present directory (which is called "."). +the file +.I tel +starting in the present directory (which is called +.IR . ). And "find / \-name tel" would do the same, but starting at the root of the tree. Large searches on a multi-GB disk will be time-consuming, -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
