Re: Typo on find man page

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Hello Stefan,

Thanks, but bugs in that page should be reported here:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils

Cheers,

Michael

On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 05:39, Stefan Wirth <stefanwirth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This part has a typo:
>
> -P     Never follow symbolic links.  This is the default behaviour.  When find examines or **prints information a file**, and the file is a symbolic link, the information used shall be taken from the properties of the symbolic link itself.
>
> Change to one of these:
>
> -P     Never follow symbolic links.  This is the default behaviour.  When find examines or prints information **for** a file, and the file is a symbolic link, the information used shall be taken from the properties of the symbolic link itself.
>
> -P     Never follow symbolic links.  This is the default behaviour.  When find examines or prints information **about** a file, and the file is a symbolic link, the information used shall be taken from the properties of the symbolic link itself.
>
> Thanks



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