On 2010-01-26 Phil Fisher 02 <fisher...@cpwplc.com> 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:
ametz...@argenau:~$ echo a b c | xargs -I {} -n 6 echo {}
{} a b c
ametz...@argenau:~$ echo a b c | xargs -i -n 6 echo {}
{} a b c
ametz...@argenau:~$ echo a b c | xargs -i{} -n 6 echo {}
{} a b c
ametz...@argenau:~$ xargs --version
xargs (GNU findutils) 4.4.0
cu andreas
