[PATCH 15/40] find/find.1: Use em dash for linguistic pausa.

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:47:45 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <20251113164745.y47hmo4r7xpl2wss@illithid>
An em dash is the more orthographically correct dash for a couple of
contexts where the page had been using an en dash (which denotes a
range), and its special character escape sequence is universally
portable to boot.
---
 find/find.1 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index 0cac600a..10310edb 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ .SS Processing arbitrary starting points
 .B `\-execdir\ \&...\&\ +`
 syntax for performance and security reasons.
 .
-.SS Traversing the filesystem just once \(en for 2 different actions
+.SS Traversing the filesystem just once \(em for 2 different actions
 .IP \(bu 4n
 Traverse the filesystem just once, listing set-user-ID files and
 directories into
@@ -2509,7 +2509,7 @@ .SS Traversing the filesystem just once \(en for 2 different actions
 respectively).
 .
 .SS
-Pruning \(en omitting files and subdirectories
+Pruning \(em omitting files and subdirectories
 .IP \(bu 4n
 Copy the contents of
 .I /source-dir
-- 
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