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authorBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>2018-10-18 13:19:32 +0200
committerBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>2018-10-18 13:19:32 +0200
commit7741d79fa3f564f340ef2c26407dd6d3b1f60d42 (patch)
treee775dd213c5ff7cc9becf0105890654d9a031c01
parent013054ffc2a6118dbb68eb9192f0478d48d33cfe (diff)
downloadfindutils-7741d79fa3f5.tar.gz
doc: fix typo in 'xargs -l' examples in texinfo manual
* doc/find.texi (node Controlling Parallelism): Change from 'xargs -1' (minus one) to 'xargs -l' (minus El) in three places. Reported by Ahmad ElKomey in https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?54859
-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rw-r--r--doc/find.texi6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 561868f..98d2250 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ Some minor documentation improvements are listed in "Bug Fixes" below.
** Bug Fixes
+#54859: doc: fix typo in 'xargs -l' examples in texinfo manual.
+ Change from 'xargs -1' (minus one) to 'xargs -l' (minus El) in 3 places.
+
#54838: doc: fix the examples of the -perm option in the texinfo documentation.
The example '-perm -g+w,o+w' was misplaced.
Bug present since FINDUTILS_4_2_27-1.
diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi
index 4bd4b17..634dfb2 100644
--- a/doc/find.texi
+++ b/doc/find.texi
@@ -2576,7 +2576,7 @@ work that it takes significant time to run, even on a single image.
You could run:
@example
-find originals -name '*.jpg' | xargs -1 makeallsizes
+find originals -name '*.jpg' | xargs -l makeallsizes
@end example
This will run @code{makeallsizes @var{filename}} once for each @code{.jpg}
@@ -2585,7 +2585,7 @@ two central processors, this script will only keep one of them busy.
Instead, you could probably finish in about half the time by running:
@example
-find originals -name '*.jpg' | xargs -1 -P 2 makeallsizes
+find originals -name '*.jpg' | xargs -l -P 2 makeallsizes
@end example
@code{xargs} will run the first two commands in parallel, and then
@@ -2626,7 +2626,7 @@ If you send it the signal @code{SIGUSR1}, it will run one more command
in parallel. For example:
@example
-shell$ xargs <allimages -1 -P 4 makeallsizes &
+shell$ xargs <allimages -l -P 4 makeallsizes &
[4] 27643
... at some later point ...
shell$ kill -USR2 27643