Re: xargs -i forgets its supposed defaults in some positions

[Andreas Metzler]

On 28.07.03 09:23 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> xargs -i forgets its supposed defaults in some positions:
> $ echo a |xargs -i -n 1 echo {} zzz
> {} zzz a
> $ echo a |xargs -n 1 echo {} zzz
> {} zzz a
> $ echo a |xargs -n 1 -i echo {} zzz
> a zzz

Iirc there's a bug-report titled something along the lines of "xargs -i 
and -n don't play nice together" in Debian's BTS 
http://bugs.debian.org/findutils and I think there's is actually one on 
savannah, too, (perhaps in the "patches" or "support" section.

Did you doublecheck?
          cu andreas