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Re: typo in error message 'can not fit single argument ...'


From: ed
Subject: Re: typo in error message 'can not fit single argument ...'
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:29:05 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:27:40PM +0100, Andreas Bernauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> $ echo foo | xargs -s1 echo
> xargs: can not fit single argument within argument list size limit
> 
> I'd say, the error message should read:
> xargs: cannot fit single argument within argument list size limit
> 
> Note 'can not' --> 'cannot'.

I agree with this, 'cannot' is a valid dictionary word.

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Ed http://www.s5h.net/




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