Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:40:12 GMT From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/57024: a new option for xargs(1) -- only treat \n as separators Message-ID: <200502270140.j1R1eCC4014681@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/57024; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: Subject: Re: bin/57024: a new option for xargs(1) -- only treat \n as separators Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:35:19 -0500 I suspect this PR should be closed. Not only is there the very-workable solution from Oliver, but 'xargs -L <num>' is pretty close to what the original PR is asking for. It may not be obvious from description in the man page, but when you request -L you're saying (among other things) that you want *lines* of input. Therefore it switches to using just '\n' as the delimiter for arguments. (the reason I'm not closing the PR myself is that I haven't yet checked the 'xargs' on other OS's to see if our 'xargs' has implemented -L in the same way that their versions do. I might close come back and close the PR at some later date). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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