Apologies, this patch contains a hunk I didn't intend to combine. Here's a correction. I will send the remainder as a separate patch.
From 487c3df3b3741d8365380dc0c06c49c0827918fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Youngman <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 21:19:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: POSIX status of xargs -l, -i, -e unchanged since 2004.
* xargs/xargs.1: the existing text described the status as of 2004, we update it to point out that those things are still the case. --- xargs/xargs.1 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/xargs/xargs.1 b/xargs/xargs.1 index 4cbcb3d6..a22db4c4 100644 --- a/xargs/xargs.1 +++ b/xargs/xargs.1 @@ -578,10 +578,11 @@ As of GNU version 4.2.9 (2004), the default behaviour of .B xargs is not to have a logical end-of-file marker. -POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition) allows this. +POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition and also later editions) allows +this. .P -The \-l and \-i options appear in the 1997 version of the POSIX -standard, but do not appear in the 2004 version of the standard. +The \-l and \-i options appeared in the 1997 edition of the POSIX +standard, but do not appear in the 2004 or later editions. Therefore you should use \-L and \-I instead, respectively. .P The \-o option is an extension to the POSIX standard for better -- 2.47.3
