Why do I get a different output in the following two invocations of xargs? I had expected that the relative order of the command line switches (-I, -L) would not matter:
$ ls | xargs -I DIR -L 1 echo DIR DIR wontprint.txt DIR x.cmd DIR x.pl DIR x.sh $ ls | xargs -L 1 -I DIR echo DIR wontprint.txt x.cmd x.pl x.sh xargs (GNU findutils) 4.5.9 Packaged by Cygwin (4.5.9-2) Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <rona...@eml.cc> + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited after Peter van der Linden) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
