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intro.1: ffix 

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Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -200,14 +200,21 @@ Here it finds Maja's telephone number.
Files live in a large tree, the file hierarchy.
Each has a
.I "pathname"
describing the path from the root of the tree (which is called /)
describing the path from the root of the tree (which is called
.IR / )
to the file.
For example, such a full pathname might be /home/aeb/tel.
For example, such a full pathname might be
.IR /home/aeb/tel .
Always using full pathnames would be inconvenient, and the name
of a file in the current directory may be abbreviated by giving
only the last component.
That is why "/home/aeb/tel" can be abbreviated
to "tel" when the current directory is "/home/aeb".
That is why
.I /home/aeb/tel
can be abbreviated
to
.I tel
when the current directory is
.IR /home/aeb .
.LP
The command
.I pwd
@ -231,7 +238,10 @@ The command
(with a rather baroque syntax) will find files with given name
or other properties.
For example, "find . \-name tel" would find
the file "tel" starting in the present directory (which is called ".").
the file
.I tel
starting in the present directory (which is called
.IR . ).
And "find / \-name tel" would do the same, but starting at the root
of the tree.
Large searches on a multi-GB disk will be time-consuming,