Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs

2023-03-14 Thread Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou
> > On 14 Mar 2023, at 5:11 PM, Nature wrote: > > Hi: >Learned from Wikipedia : xargs (short for "extended arguments") is a > command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems. > >Why isn't it called exargs, but xargs. Would love to know what was > considered at the time. The

An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs

2023-03-14 Thread Nature
Hi: Learned from Wikipedia : xargs (short for "extended arguments") is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems. Why isn't it called exargs, but xargs. Would love to know what was considered at the time.