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Re: xargs --negate-interactive
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: xargs --negate-interactive |
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Sun, 17 Jul 2016 20:06:24 +0200 |
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On 07/16/2016 04:17 PM, James Youngman wrote:
> 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?
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> 0001-xargs-add-new-option-interactive-default-yes-modifyi.patch
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> From bfea9c150229db14316262c1c05198c7caeb9538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: James Youngman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:10:32 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] xargs: add new option --interactive-default-yes, modifying
> --interactive.
> To: address@hidden
Another option may be confusing because they contradict (a bit).
I'd rather let --interactive take an optional parameter like
xargs --interactive=yes
xargs --interactive=no # like the default, or overriding ..=yes
xargs --interactive # well-known
and let it default to no (like before).
WDYT?
Have a nice day,
Berny