Re: info find does not describe -name option

Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/14/23 00:02, uzibalqa wrote:
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 9:24 AM, Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I see -name well documented in section "2.3.1 Base Name Patterns":
>>

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

I see what you mean - the entry point for `info find` is a bit unlucky,
because it directly goes to section "Invoking find".
Maybe `info '(find)' 'Finding Files'` would be a better start.

I have to think about it.  For my own reference, the following patch would do that.

Have a nice day,
Berny

diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi
index 9738386c..7fca09a1 100644
--- a/doc/find.texi
+++ b/doc/find.texi
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@

  @dircategory Individual utilities
  @direntry
-* find: (find)Invoking find.                    Finding and acting on files.
+* find: (find)Finding Files.                    Finding and acting on files.
  * locate: (find)Invoking locate.                Finding files in a database.
  * updatedb: (find)Invoking updatedb.            Building the locate database.
  * xargs: (find)Invoking xargs.                  Operating on many files.
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