On 07/16/2016 04:17 PM, James Youngman wrote: > I quite like the idea. Here's an example implementation of a flag that > could be used in a shell function/alias, if that's your thing. Comments? >
> 0001-xargs-add-new-option-interactive-default-yes-modifyi.patch > > > From bfea9c150229db14316262c1c05198c7caeb9538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:10:32 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] xargs: add new option --interactive-default-yes, modifying > --interactive. > To: findutils-patc...@gnu.org Another option may be confusing because they contradict (a bit). I'd rather let --interactive take an optional parameter like xargs --interactive=yes xargs --interactive=no # like the default, or overriding ..=yes xargs --interactive # well-known and let it default to no (like before). WDYT? Have a nice day, Berny