Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51151
On 2017-05-30 Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote: [...] > BSD’s ‘-o’ option is documented thus: > -o Reopen stdin as /dev/tty in the child process before executing > the command. This is useful if you want xargs to run an interac- > tive application. > IMHO, the -o option is much less cumbersome to type/remember, and for > the sake of reverse portability (support applications that _already_ > use the BSD variant), and especially given that the GNU maintainers > already know of it, the -o option ought to be added to GNU xargs as > well. > Side effect: avoids launching another shell, and, more importantly > to some, avoids quoting hell. > (That being said, /bin/sh on FreeBSD and derivates thereof has > slightly broken (for hysterical raisins) behaviour when sh -c cmd > is followed by “--” so the portability the GNU maintainers assert > for the sh variant is not exactly true either.) > So please persuade the upstream developers to add it; if necessary > I can likely cook up a debdiff. Hello Thorsten, thanks for taking the time to write down a concise feature request. Forwarded, however with a pointer to <https://bugs.debian.org/5956>, where an argument against adding this can be found. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
