Aren't

    xargs foo

and

    xargs -i foo {}

supposed to be identical? Why do they act different?

For instance, compare:

    ls / | xargs ls -d

and

    ls / | xargs -i ls -d {}

-- 
Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>


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