Re: xargs: possible bug(s)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-01-26 Phil Fisher 02 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jay
> Thanks for the prompt response.
> I will look and see what seems to be the AIX version implementation.

> Also, on my original "bug report" (please note quotes), xargs appeared
> to reject the use of -I {}.  From what I can see this does not seem to
> be correct.  Can you clarify within your remit?
[...]

Hello,

you were using xargs 4.1.20, a rather old version. I guess this bug
has simply been fixed in the mean time. 4.4.0 does not show the
behavior you described:

address@hidden:~$ echo a b c | xargs -I {} -n 6 echo {}
{} a b c
address@hidden:~$ echo a b c | xargs -i -n 6 echo {}
{} a b c
address@hidden:~$ echo a b c | xargs -i{} -n 6 echo {}
{} a b c
address@hidden:~$ xargs --version
xargs (GNU findutils) 4.4.0

cu andreas