From f605551f8a4f37222c50e9b84637ac15e6dc2103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Young Mo Kang Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:12:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 4/7] doc: Add description to the -type mult arg support * NEWS: Add description -type's multiple arg support --- NEWS | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 009b7a3..ca9d24b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) * Major changes in release 4.7.0-git, YYYY-MM-DD -** Changes to locate / updatedb +** Changes to locate / updatedb / find Support for generating old-format databases (with updatedb --old-format or updatedb --dbformat=old) has been removed. The old @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ database is now different to previous versions. However, you should not rely on locate's output appearing in any particular order in any case. +The find program will now accept multiple letters as -type arguments. +For example, to search for files and directories and links all together, +simply give the option '-type fdl' which will be interpreted as +'( -type f -o -type d -o -type l )'. + ** Improvements All utilities now only show the full usage text when requested via -- 2.7.0