Clarified the description of what the programs in this package do.

Added a note about xargs. Corrected English idiom.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/chapter08/findutils.xml b/chapter08/findutils.xml
index c37f3aab0..c12452668 100644
--- a/chapter08/findutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/findutils.xml
@@ -23,10 +23,12 @@
   <sect2 role="package">
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs
-    are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
+    <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Programs
+    are provided to search through all the files in a directory tree and to
     create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive
-    find, but is unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
+    find, but unreliable unless the database has been updated recently).
+    Findutils also supplies the <command>xargs</command> program, which
+    can be used to run a specified command on each file selected by a search.</para>
 
     <segmentedlist>
       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -63,9 +65,9 @@ esac</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
-          database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
-          which is FHS-compliant.</para>
+          <para>This option moves the <command>locate</command>
+          database to <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
+          which is the FHS-compliant location.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>