[PATCH 17/42] find.1: use em dash for linguistic pausa

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:46:36 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID	<20251119034636.fvhaktb7ocazbsyw@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 8f60b314..e9fb7cd6 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -2357,7 +2357,7 @@ .SS "Processing arbitrary starting points"
 .RB ` \-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
@@ -2504,7 +2504,7 @@ .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
-- 
2.30.2

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