On 2010-01-27 Phil Fisher 02 <fisher...@cpwplc.com> wrote:
>> Andreas Metzler [mailto:g...@downhill.at.eu.org]
>> On 2010-01-26 Phil Fisher 02 <fisher...@cpwplc.com> wrote:
>> > 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
[...]
> Hi Andreas
> I am sorry I am now confused.
> Your output appears to show the same as my report and I currently
> believe this to be incorrect.
> My reading of the documentation suggests that
> echo a b c | xargs -I {} -n 6 echo {}
[...]
I was responding specifically to "xargs appeared to reject the use of
-I {}". It does not. In non-ancient versions.
cu andreas
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