Hello,

find attached two patches for trivial fixes. (manpage formatting, typo
in error message.)

cu andreas

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>From a1d25eb3a872209d7e6e771f344a2da15f85d30b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 18:23:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Use \- instead of - to get minus instead of a hyphen.

---
 find/find.1       |    2 +-
 locate/locatedb.5 |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index 5da6ddf..e851f82 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ Base of file name (the path with the leading directories removed)
 matches shell pattern \fIpattern\fR.  Because the leading directories
 are removed, the file names considered for a match with
 .B \-name
-will never include a slash, so `-name a/b' will never match anything
+will never include a slash, so `\-name a/b' will never match anything
 (you probably need to use
 .B \-path
 instead).  The metacharacters (`*', `?',
diff --git a/locate/locatedb.5 b/locate/locatedb.5
index e36d85c..65a8351 100644
--- a/locate/locatedb.5
+++ b/locate/locatedb.5
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ programs called \fBbigram\fP and \fBcode\fP to produce old-format
 databases.  The old format differs from the above description in the
 following ways.  Instead of each entry starting with an
 offset-differential count byte and ending with a null, byte values
-from 0 through 28 indicate offset-differential counts from -14 through
+from 0 through 28 indicate offset-differential counts from \-14 through
 14.  The byte value indicating that a long offset-differential count
 follows is 0x1e (30), not 0x80.  The long counts are stored in host
 byte order, which is not necessarily network byte order, and host
-- 
1.6.5

>From 90c3e66e1f9acf07acb42895a9fdae91e6056ef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 18:25:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix typo "atomatically".

---
 find/parser.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/find/parser.c b/find/parser.c
index 3da5721..20d9533 100644
--- a/find/parser.c
+++ b/find/parser.c
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ check_option_combinations (const struct predicate *p)
 	{
 	  /* This fixes Savannah bug #20865. */
 	  error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
-		 _("The -delete action atomatically turns on -depth, "
+		 _("The -delete action automatically turns on -depth, "
 		   "but -prune does nothing when -depth is in effect.  "
 		   "If you want to carry on anyway, just explicitly use "
 		   "the -depth option."));
-- 
1.6.5

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