From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 20 17:12:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from corbulon.video-collage.com (corbulon.video-collage.com [64.35.99.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C886337B410; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misha (250-217.customer.cloud9.net [168.100.250.217]) by corbulon.video-collage.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5L0CYQC063139 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=FAIL); Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:12:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) X-Authentication-Warning: corbulon.video-collage.com: Host 250-217.customer.cloud9.net [168.100.250.217] claimed to be misha Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mikhail Teterin Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc. To: Juli Mallett Subject: feature request for xargs Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:12:17 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200206200706.g5K76M514469@freefall.freebsd.org> <3D1187B7.EFE705F2@FreeBSD.org> <20020620005012.A16541@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20020620005012.A16541@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206202012.17801.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.15 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 20 June 2002 03:50 am, Juli Mallett wrote: = > > Log: = > > That's right, you can shove your xargs(1) issues in my = > > direction, and also glad to review changes to it. Something like ``xargs -j'' which would spawn off up and wait for up to N processes. Currently it acts as if N was 1. Specifying 0 should mean no limit at all. Flag ``-j'' to resemble similar feature of make. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message