On 07/17/2016 08:49 PM, James Youngman wrote:
> I can see your point, but I think it might seem surprising for
> --interactive=no to turn on the interactive behaviour. Can we refine
> your proposal so it isn't surprising in this way, somehow?
Ah, that was ambigous, too, I must admit.
Maybe one
James Youngman writes:
>> > find /sbin /usr/sbin -executable \! -readable -print
>>
>> let's escape ! here for no reason
>
> The interpretation of and quoting rules for ! have changed
> substantially over the years (for example, it is a reserved word in
> only some sh variants, and who knows how i
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> BTW, in README-hacking, item 3 says:
>
> 3. Run "configure" and "make" in the normal way.
>
> If you have GNU libintl installed, you can just run "configure".
> ^^
> Othe
I can see your point, but I think it might seem surprising for
--interactive=no to turn on the interactive behaviour. Can we refine
your proposal so it isn't surprising in this way, somehow?
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 bfea9c150229db14316
