Re: xargs --negate-interactive

[James Youngman]

I quite like the idea.   Here's an example implementation of a flag that
could be used in a shell function/alias, if that's your thing.  Comments?

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On 04/10/2016 04:26 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >>>>>> "BV" == Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> writes:
> > BV> Well, there are many possibilities, but there is already a way to
> > BV> to do it in xargs.  So what would you want to achieve by saving a
> RET?
> > BV> I don't think it's about the wearing of the ENTER key on your
> keyboard?
> >
> > Thank you. If there is a way to do
> > $ seq 99|sed s/^/URL_/|xargs -pn 9 $BROWSER
> > so I can browse 9 items at a time
> > with just hitting RET instead of y RET, please tell me.
>
> I'd personally go with some shell loop like:
>
>   seq 99|sed s/^/URL_/|xargs -n9 \
>     | while read urls; do \
>         read -p "$urls:" </dev/tty; \
>         $BROWSER $urls; \
>       done
>
> Of course, as the URLs may contain some special characters, you'd have
> to care about proper quoting or escaping/unescaping additionally.
>
> Nevertheless, xargs isn't primarily a tool to get and evaluate
> the user's approval to execute arbitrary tools; and I don't think
> it should support more ways of evaluating such approval.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
>
>


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