From fad67fe494d659c204a611e9b4c455e28922f9f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jay <jay>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:33:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Documented that the -regex option follows Gnulib's re_match()
 implementation.

---
 find/find.1 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index 18909d5..5b25a99 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -192,7 +192,14 @@ Any of the permission bits \fImode\fR are set for the file.
 File name matches regular expression \fIpattern\fR.  This is a match
 on the whole path, not a search.  For example, to match a file named
 `./fubar3', you can use the regular expression `.*bar.' or `.*b.*3',
-but not `b.*r3'.
+but not `b.*r3'.  The regular expressions understood by 
+.B find 
+follow the conventions for the 
+.B re_match 
+system library function where this is present (i.e. on systems using
+the GNU C Library).  On other systems, the implementation within
+Gnulib is used; by default, Gnulib provides "basic" regular
+expressions.
 .IP "\-size \fIn\fR[bckw]"
 File uses \fIn\fP units of space.  The units are 512-byte blocks by
 default or if `b' follows \fIn\fP, bytes if `c' follows \fIn\fP,
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