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Diffstat (limited to 'chapter08')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/findutils.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/grep.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/make.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/tar.xml | 5 |
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/findutils.xml b/chapter08/findutils.xml index 37393f0de..19989ecaa 100644 --- a/chapter08/findutils.xml +++ b/chapter08/findutils.xml @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive - find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para> + find, but is unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> diff --git a/chapter08/grep.xml b/chapter08/grep.xml index 58b0db366..c911d9e06 100644 --- a/chapter08/grep.xml +++ b/chapter08/grep.xml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ <sect2 role="package"> <title/> - <para>The Grep package contains programs for searching through files.</para> + <para>The Grep package contains programs for searching through teh contents of files.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> diff --git a/chapter08/make.xml b/chapter08/make.xml index 9c649cdc5..b996469c3 100644 --- a/chapter08/make.xml +++ b/chapter08/make.xml @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ <sect2 role="package"> <title/> - <para>The Make package contains a program for compiling packages.</para> + <para>The Make package contains a program for controlling the generation of + executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's + source files. .</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> diff --git a/chapter08/tar.xml b/chapter08/tar.xml index d148c4695..56883628c 100644 --- a/chapter08/tar.xml +++ b/chapter08/tar.xml @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ <sect2 role="package"> <title/> - <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para> + <para>The Tar package provides the ability to create tar archives, as well + as various other kinds of manipulation. Tar can be used on + previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or + to update or list files which were already stored. </para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> |