git: ed1e8451a5 - main - books/handbook/basics: Use less confusing whatis(1) example.

The branch main has been updated by ceri:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=ed1e8451a507305a18a5da67324708b9726e8e0c

commit ed1e8451a507305a18a5da67324708b9726e8e0c
Author:     Ceri Davies <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-24 08:51:18 +0000
Commit:     Ceri Davies <[email protected]>
CommitDate: 2021-05-24 08:54:27 +0000

    books/handbook/basics: Use less confusing whatis(1) example.
    
    If, as suggested by the Basics chapter in the handbook, one does:
    
      % cd /usr/bin
      % man -f * | more
    
    the result is a number of warnings due to filenames like c++ and
    flex++ being treated as expressions.
    
    Two ways to handle this:
    
    1) Explain that one should use "man -f -- *" and why;
    2) Avoid the problem and use "cd /usr/sbin" instead.
    
    Option 1 is more appropriate for this stage of the handbook
    
    Approved by:    blackend (mentor)
---
 documentation/content/en/books/handbook/basics/_index.adoc | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/basics/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/basics/_index.adoc
index 3755b4a547..7c0c35a27c 100644
--- a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/basics/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/basics/_index.adoc
@@ -1515,11 +1515,11 @@ If the name of the manual page is unknown, use `man -k` to search for keywords i
 
 This command displays a list of commands that have the keyword "mail" in their descriptions. This is equivalent to using man:apropos[1].
 
-To read the descriptions for all of the commands in [.filename]#/usr/bin#, type:
+To read the descriptions for all of the commands in [.filename]#/usr/sbin#, type:
 
 [source,shell]
 ....
-% cd /usr/bin
+% cd /usr/sbin
 % man -f * | more
 ....
 
@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ or
 
 [source,shell]
 ....
-% cd /usr/bin
+% cd /usr/sbin
 % whatis * |more
 ....
 
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