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

2019-07-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well the man page and INFO page say depreciated. So better clean them up.

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

2019-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 7/29/19 1:49 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > P.S., > $ xargs --help > -I R same as --replace=R > -i, --replace[=R]replace R in INITIAL-ARGS with names read > from standard input; if R is unspecified, >

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

2019-07-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
P.S., $ xargs --help -I R same as --replace=R -i, --replace[=R]replace R in INITIAL-ARGS with names read from standard input; if R is unspecified, assume {} ... Don't you want to mention one i

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

2019-07-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well all I know is the whole idea of xargs is to *separate* the things coming in into separate arguments. So when the user uses -I, he expects it to just act the same, with the extra feature being that he can now also put things into the beginning or middle of lines, not just the ends. Never in h