Applied, thanks.
On 3/18/23 11:02, James Youngman wrote:
Some minor improvements.
I like it.
Minor nit:
> Subject: [PATCH] [doc] describe history of find, xargs and locate.
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git seems to swallow square brackets at the beginning of the "Subject:" line
during `apply-mail`, so the leadin
Some minor improvements.
From 21f22dabccaa715d388cdcd3625fea5616741e42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Youngman
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 10:01:19 +
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [doc] provide an introduction to the History section.
To: findutils-patc...@gnu.org
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doc/find.texi | 12 +++-
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 6:12 PM James Youngman wrote:
>
> Interesting question. I just asked Herb Gellis, the inventor of
> xargs. No answer yet.
The answer turns out to be "eXecute command with ARGumentS". The
first letter is "x" because there was no other command beginning with
"x" at the t
