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| author | Eugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-07-22 11:39:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Eugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-07-22 11:39:47 +0000 |
| commit | 26a329f49fb4537d598e93f16054fd9e16f7e677 (patch) | |
| tree | e311992794b988c720fa3fecc253f2d3b47da198 | |
| parent | 8f733dabcc359b04c32874a4cd4289dbc3f8c0f6 (diff) | |
| download | src-26a329f49fb4537d598e93f16054fd9e16f7e677.tar.gz src-26a329f49fb4537d598e93f16054fd9e16f7e677.zip | |
find.1: explain why "find -s" may differ from "find | sort"
In short, that's because a directory name may end
with a character that goes before slash (/).
MFC after: 1 week
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/find/find.1 | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1 index 72fe3c0bea06..9efb8908ee63 100644 --- a/usr.bin/find/find.1 +++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)find.1 8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 8, 2021 +.Dd July 22, 2022 .Dt FIND 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -158,6 +158,26 @@ Note: and .Ql "find | sort" may give different results. +.Pp +For example, +.Ql find -s +puts a directory +.Ql Ar foo +with all its contents before a directory +.Ql Ar foo. +but +.Ql "find | sort" +puts the directory name +.Ql Ar foo. +before any string like +.Ql Ar foo/bar +because +.Ql .\& +goes before +.Ql / +in ASCII. In locales other than +.Ar C +results may vary more due to collate differences. .It Fl x Prevent .Nm |