diff -aru -x *.o findutils-4.1.7/doc/find.texi findutils-pb/doc/find.texi --- findutils-4.1.7/doc/find.texi Mon Oct 9 22:58:25 2000 +++ findutils-pb/doc/find.texi Sat Jun 16 16:28:38 2001 @@ -1073,13 +1073,16 @@ @subsection Format Directives @samp{-printf} and @samp{-fprintf} support the following format -directives to print information about the file being processed. Unlike -the C @code{printf} function, they do not support field width specifiers. +directives to print information about the file being processed. +The C @code{printf} function, field width and precision specifiers +are supported, as applied to string (%s) types. I.E. you can specify +"minimum field width"."maximum field width" for each directive. @samp{%%} is a literal percent sign. A @samp{%} character followed by -any other character is discarded (but the other character is printed), -and a warning message is printed to the standard error output (because -it was probably a typo). +an unrecognised character (i.e. not a known directive or printf field +width and precision specifier), is discarded (but the unrecognised character +is printed), and a warning message is printed to the standard error output +(because it was probably a typo). @menu * Name Directives::