At 11:52 PM -0700 5/14/01, Dima Dorfman ably wrote:
>This is a simplistic example that can be done in many other ways
>(including using -J), but it shows what -I is supposed to be able to
>do. -J doesn't work with the above since it only looks for the
>replstr once, and will not find it unless it
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:31:53PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > Still, let me say that I do hope to get back to 'xargs', and add
> > the -I option. I must admit my enthusiasm for doing -I wore off
> > after seeing the current code to 'xargs'. N
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:31:53PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 4:09 AM +0200 5/15/01, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> >Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start
> >> ``discussing'' it again :oI
> >
> >from my point of
At 4:09 AM +0200 5/15/01, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start
>> ``discussing'' it again :oI
>
>from my point of view, it would be better to implement -i/-I than this
>hack which has no advanta
Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start
> ``discussing'' it again :oI
from my point of view, it would be better to implement -i/-I than this
hack which has no advantage in performance and functionnality than :
while read a
At 8:37 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When I install this man page on -stable, and do a 'man xargs',
>> that last line is displayed to the user as:
>>
> > /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp /bin/ls0 0/bin/ls1
>
>... Old version
Seconded :)
G'luck,
Peter
--
Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before?
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:04:42AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start
> ``discussing'' it again :oI
>
> Feel free to blame me for rev
I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start
``discussing'' it again :oI
Feel free to blame me for reviewing it !!!
> Folks,
>
> The attached patch adds a "replacement string" feature to xargs(1).
> There's a full description in the man page update (also attached), but
Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 6:03 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> >+For example, the following command will copy the list of files and
> >+directories which start with an uppercase letter in the current
> >+directory to
> >+.Pa destdir :
> >+.Pp
> >+.Dl /bin/ls -1d [A
At 6:03 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>Comments? Suggestions?
The one oddity I forgot to ask Dima about was in the man page.
We included an example, which in nroff source is:
>+For example, the following command will copy the list of files and
>+directories which start with an uppercase
Folks,
The attached patch adds a "replacement string" feature to xargs(1).
There's a full description in the man page update (also attached), but
the following should demonstrate the new functionality:
dima@spike% ./xargs -J [] echo CMD LINE [] ARGS < test
CMD LINE this is the co
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