Typo's in ubuntu-docs Oneiric version

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 16 December 2011 11:57, Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> Op 16-12-11 17:51, Jeremy Bicha schreef:
>
>> On 16 December 2011 11:39, Hannie Dumoleyn<lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Jeremy,
>>> Thanks for this information. It may turn out to be very useful in the
>>> future.
>>> I have done all the above and it works fine, with the test on
>>> "chromaticity", that is.
>>> The output was: ./color-whatisspace.page:    approximate how the eye
>>> responds with a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram
>>>
>>> But I still need your help on the following:
>>> In ubuntu-docs (Precise) I found the word thier instead of their (typo).
>>> I
>>> tried to run the command rgrep with part of the sentence between ""
>>> ~/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu-help/C$ rgrep "misleading at best to say that thier
>>> display is calibrated" .
>>> and
>>> ~/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu-help/C$ rgrep "misleading at best to say that their
>>> display is calibrated" .
>>> But I get nothing. What did I do wrong?
>>
>> You didn't do anything wrong! If rgrep doesn't return any results,
>> then that phrase isn't there. In other words, the misspelling was
>> probably already fixed.
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
> Jeremy, this doesn't make sense to me. If the typo has already been fixed, I
> should receive output after giving the second command (where I spelled
> "their" instead of "thier" in the phrase).
> Hannie

Ah, rgrep has to match exactly. In this case, extra line breaks were
added so "misleading" is now on a different line than the rest of the
phrase. Try rgrep "at best to say" .

Jeremy