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From: | Andreas Metzler |
Subject: | Re: xargs -i forgets its supposed defaults in some positions |
Date: | Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:16:14 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 |
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
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