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Fix example use of find command in documentation

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Sergey Poznyakoff
2022-12-27 13:02:05 +02:00
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@@ -7717,7 +7717,11 @@ command.
Any number of @option{-T} options can be given in the command line.
The following example shows how to use @command{find} to generate a list of
files smaller than 400K in length and put that list into a file
files smaller than 400 blocks in length@footnote{A file system block
is usually 512 bytes, so this amounts to 200K. Use the @samp{c}
suffix to specify size in @emph{bytes}. Also, when using
GNU find, you can specify other size units, such as @samp{k},
@samp{m}, etc. @xref{Size,,,find.info,GNU Findutils}, for details.} and put that list into a file
called @file{small-files}. You can then use the @option{-T} option to
@command{tar} to specify the files from that file, @file{small-files}, to
create the archive @file{little.tgz}. (The @option{-z} option to
@@ -7843,7 +7847,7 @@ file names that begin with dash (similar to
@option{--verbatim-files-from} option).
This example shows how to use @command{find} to generate a list of files
larger than 800K in length and put that list into a file called
larger than 800 blocks in length and put that list into a file called
@file{long-files}. The @option{-print0} option to @command{find} is just
like @option{-print}, except that it separates files with a @code{NUL}
rather than with a newline. You can then run @command{tar} with both the