Re: xargs prompts with the same string, but executes differently

2019-07-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
JY> Please feel that you should phrase your suggestion in the form of a patch. I don't know what to write. "Warning: whatever you feed in will become one argument glued together."

Re: xargs prompts with the same string, but executes differently

2019-07-25 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 3:28 PM 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > still needs to add a tip to use -p or -t to see the quoting realities of > how REPLACE-STR is used... Please feel that you should phrase your suggestion in the form of a patch.

Re: xargs prompts with the same string, but executes differently

2019-07-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK, but '-I REPLACE-STR' '--replace[=REPLACE-STR]' '-i[REPLACE-STR]' Replace occurrences of REPLACE-STR in the initial arguments with names read from standard input. Also, unquoted blanks do not terminate arguments; instead, the input is split at newlines on