Re: find.texi: Databases: Newline handling

[James Youngman]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:04:19PM -0400, Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> I'm working on improving the GNU findutils manual and would be interested
> in having someone verify something for accuracy. I have a question
> concering the following paragraph in the manual:
> 
> "So, if you are using the new database format (this is the default) and
>  your system uses GNU find, newlines will be correctly handled at all
>  times. Otherwise, newlines may not be correctly handled."
> 
> >From the section "Newline Handling"(Finding files):
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Newline-Handling.html>
> 
> Was the mentioning "GNU find" intended to be "GNU locate"?

You're right.  Thanks for catching this.  Where I say "GNU find", I
should say "GNU sort".   It's "sort -z" that we need.

I have just applied the attached patch to resolve this.

Sorry.

Regards,
James.

gnu-findutils-gnu-sort-newline-handling.patch
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