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Backslash to slash


From: Per Starbäck
Subject: Backslash to slash
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:44:26 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

diff -u doc/find.texi.~1~ doc/find.texi
--- doc/find.texi.~1~   2008-03-10 21:31:16.000000000 +0100
+++ doc/find.texi       2008-05-23 13:37:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -4121,8 +4121,8 @@
 @subsection Unusual characters in filenames
 
 Unix-like systems allow any characters to appear in file names with
-the exception of the ASCII NUL character and the backslash.
-Backslashes can occur in path names (as the directory separator) but
+the exception of the ASCII NUL character and the slash.
+Slashes can occur in path names (as the directory separator) but
 not in the names of actual directory entries.  This means that the
 list of files that @code{xargs} reads could in fact contain white space
 characters --- spaces, tabs and newline characters.  Since by default,




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