[bug #52137] unexpected behaviour when combining -I and -n

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #52137 (project findutils): It's neither documented nor does xargs perfom any checks if mutually-exclusive options are provided. So I think both should be fixed. But I cannot see posix _requiring_ that -I and -n _must_ produce strange results, so xargs could go beyond po

Re: [bug #52129] find lacks "-older" option symmetric to "-newer"

From: anonymous > find lacks "-older" option symmetric to "-newer" > > It is not the same as "-not -older", especially on the OSes without > microsecond file times (such as Darwin) where equal file times are not > seldom. > > See the discussion here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/29825

[bug #52137] unexpected behaviour when combining -I and -n

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #52137 (project findutils): Posix says: "The -I, -L, and -n options are mutually-exclusive. Some implementations use the last one specified if more than one is given on a command line; other implementations treat combinations of the options in different ways." GNU xargs

[bug #52137] unexpected behaviour when combining -I and -n

URL: Summary: unexpected behaviour when combining -I and -n Project: findutils Submitted by: uli42 Submitted on: Thu 28 Sep 2017 10:37:17 AM UTC Category: xargs Severit