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Bug 480192 - Error in man page for emerge, CONFIGURATION FILES section, find protected config files
Summary: Error in man page for emerge, CONFIGURATION FILES section, find protected con...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Keywords: InVCS
: 509540 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 472632
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Reported: 2013-08-07 18:52 UTC by Kieron Hardy
Modified: 2016-06-16 16:05 UTC (History)
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Description Kieron Hardy 2013-08-07 18:52:21 UTC 
In the emerge man page, in the CONFIURATION FILES section, there is an error in the example command to search for config files protected as described in that CONFIGURATION FILES section.

i.e. the statement: 

To find files that need to be updated in  /etc,  type
       find /etc -iname ´.  cfg????_*´.

should read:

To find files that need to be updated in  /etc,  type
       find /etc -iname ´._cfg????_*´.

It seems somehow the first underscore has been replaced with two spaces(?). A copy paste from the man page to a terminal failed, and the command needed to be edited to my suggested replacement in order to actually find a protected file.
Comment 1 Kieron Hardy 2013-08-07 19:45:34 UTC 
Correction the command should actually be:

find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' 

i.e. the quotes should be apostrophes rather than closing (single) quotes.
Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-08-08 18:53:20 UTC 
This is fixed in 2.1.13.7 and 2.2.0_alpha196.
Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2016-06-16 16:05:33 UTC 
*** Bug 509540 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***