On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:53:41AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Yes, the whole area is documented quite sparse, as I found out in > http://bugs.debian.org/325005 however I think Jay might change xargs' > behavior to a more sane one. > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2005-06/msg00150.html>
A change to the current behaviour is unlikely as the current behaviour is the same as all the other versions of Unix except *BSD. The latter has a slightly different behaviour which is still standard-conforming. However, we should improve the documentation, though it is worth pointing out that using more than one of -I, -L and -n produces a behaviour which is different across different versions of Unix. In this context -i and -l are affected in the same way as -I and -L. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
