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 15:42, uzibalqa wrote:
>> 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.
>   
> Thank you for thinking about some organising things better.  I do like using
> info, and call "info program" on terminal to check things.

Pushed the attached at:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=db175578e3d

Have a nice day,
Berny
0001-doc-change-find-enty-point-to-Finding-Files.patch (text/x-patch, 1.2 KB)
From db175578e3d76217bdb439ed495cafbe1992ca89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 23:06:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: change find enty point to "Finding Files"

The previous entry point for 'info find' was "Invoking find" which
is not that enlightening for the user.   Change to the better choice.

* doc/find.texi (@direntry): Change target for 'find' to the
chapter "Finding Files".

Discussed at:
<https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-findutils/2023-04/msg00006.html>
---
 doc/find.texi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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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