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find.texi: Databases: Newline handling


From: Aaron S. Hawley
Subject: find.texi: Databases: Newline handling
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:04:19 -0400 (EDT)

I'm working on improving the GNU findutils manual and would be interested
in having someone verify something for accuracy. I have a question
concering the following paragraph in the manual:

"So, if you are using the new database format (this is the default) and
 your system uses GNU find, newlines will be correctly handled at all
 times. Otherwise, newlines may not be correctly handled."

>From the section "Newline Handling"(Finding files):
<http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Newline-Handling.html>

Was the mentioning "GNU find" intended to be "GNU locate"?

If you are using the new database format you must already be using GNU
updatedb, which one would imagine already requires GNU find.  So the
sentence strikes me as either incorrect or at least pedantic.  Based on
other information in the manual, GNU find actually doesn't seem to be
required for creating databases in the new format, only a find that can
spit null-characters as endlines is.

Thanks,
/a





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