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Re: Document that find -maxdepth is a GNU extension


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: Re: Document that find -maxdepth is a GNU extension
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:23:11 +0200
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On 4/15/19 7:02 PM, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> this information is in the manual page, but not in the info files.  The 
> latter state e.g. for --no-run-if-empty, that
> this is a “GNU extension”.

Actually, there's a lot redundancy between the man page and the texinfo
manual, and also quite a lot which is not in sync (as in your example).

IMO maintaining both is quite some effort, and ideally all should be merged
into the texinfo format (of which HTML and PDF versions are generated) [1], and
find.1 should be generated from and contain just a bit more than 'find --help'.
A pity that merging both formats is a huge effort already ...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html

Have a nice day,
Berny



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