Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:10:41 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jackie 'business-first' Cook" <jackie@businessman.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system Message-ID: <20011212101041.E11552@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:13:35PM -0800, Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: > There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when > things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of > those things. The command is, as you could have guessed from the subject, > xags(1) aka /usr/bin/xargs. It is buggy and cluttered piece of code. Faulty and > hard to use command. It's idiosyncratic syntax makes people dizzy everytime they > use/or just try to use it. > It's also a part of just ratified POSIX.1-2001 standard. -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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