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Clarify wording to indicate that the arguments to find(1) are path names

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(and can be both files or directories).  Show white space between
"(", ")", "!" and their corresponding `expression' arguments as
expected by the expression parser inside find(1).

Prompted by:	David Honig <David.Honig@idt.com> on freebsd-doc
		Message-Id: <199904132055.NAA09432@justinian.Eng.idt.com>
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Joseph Koshy 1999-04-19 08:26:00 +00:00
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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)find.1 8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
.\" $Id: find.1,v 1.17 1998/11/29 12:00:06 bde Exp $
.\" $Id: find.1,v 1.18 1998/12/31 16:21:51 billf Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 9, 1995
.Dt FIND 1
@ -45,13 +45,13 @@
.Nm find
.Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P
.Op Fl Xdsx
.Op Fl f Ar file
.Op Ar file ...
.Op Fl f Ar pathname
.Op Ar pathname ...
.Ar expression
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Find
recursively descends the directory tree for each
.Ar file
.Ar pathname
listed, evaluating an
.Ar expression
(composed of the ``primaries'' and ``operands'' listed below) in terms
@ -400,11 +400,11 @@ A preceding plus sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means
The primaries may be combined using the following operators.
The operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence.
.Bl -tag -width (expression)
.It Cm \&( Ns Ar expression Ns Cm \&)
.It Cm \&( Ar expression Cm \&)
This evaluates to true if the parenthesized expression evaluates to
true.
.Pp
.It Cm \&! Ns Ar expression
.It Cm \&! Ar expression
This is the unary
.Tn NOT
operator.