[perl #24757] Patch recommendation for "perlrun" POD's description of -n option.

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This is a bug report for perl from daoswald@adelphia.net,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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The description of perl -n, found in perldoc states: "Here is an efficient 
way to delete all files older than a week:"  The example given is "find . 
-mtime +7....."

The manpage for find states: "-mtime n: File's data was last modified n*24 
hours ago."

The example given in perldoc perlrun POD's description of the -n switch 
should state, "Here is an efficient way to delete all files whos contents 
were most recently modified over a week ago."

Also worth mentioning, an example that, when run, could result in 
substantial loss of data might be worthy of consideration for replacement 
with a less dangerous example.  But that's just a thought...


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Flags:
    category=docs
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by Debian Project at Fri Jun  6 00:10:15 EST 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-xfs+ti1211, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux kosh 2.4.20-xfs+ti1211 #1 sat nov 30 19:19:08 est 2002 i686 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i386-linux -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8.0 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8.0 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.0 -Dd_dosuid -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O3',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 (Debian)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.0
    gnulibc_version='2.3.1'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0
    /usr/share/perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/home/davido
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/davido/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [perl #24757] Patch recommendation for "perlrun" POD's description of -n option. by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #24757] Patch recommendation for "perlrun" POD's description of -n option. by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: [perl #24757] Patch recommendation for "perlrun" POD's description of -n option. by Ronald J Kimball
• Re: [perl #24757] Patch recommendation for "perlrun" POD's description of -n option. by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #24757] Patch recommendation for "perlrun" POD's description of -n option. by Dave Mitchell