Re: info find does not describe -name option

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 9:24 AM, Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> wrote:


> On 4/12/23 22:10, uzibalqa wrote:
> 
> > Have been looking at
> > 
> > info find
> > 
> > for find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git
> > 
> > Although info describes -name option in "8.1.2 Warning Messages", this is not the standard way
> > of listing command options.
> > 
> > I would be grateful if info for find could list find options in the standard
> > 
> > '-name PATTERN'
> > Use PATTERN as the pattern.
> 
> 
> I see -name well documented in section "2.3.1 Base Name Patterns":
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Base-Name-Patterns
> 
> The navigation structure isn't that bad either IMO:
> 
> 2 Finding Files
> 2.1 find Expressions
> 2.2 Starting points
> 2.3 Name
> 2.3.1 Base Name Patterns <-- -name
> ...
> 
> One can find the -name option also via the INDEX:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Primary-Index

It is good as you say, but I get something different when I do
"info find" in terminal.

 
> Have a nice day,
> Berny