Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-12 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:13:35PM -0800, Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of those things. The command is, as you could have guessed

Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Jackie 'business-first' Cook
There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of those things. The command is, as you could have guessed from the subject, xags(1) aka /usr/bin/xargs. It is buggy and cluttered piece of

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating system. Nice proposal, where's the diff? Yours sincerly, Jackie

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating system. Nice proposal,

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Julian Elischer
ummm, what are my scripts that use it going to use instead? it seems to work fine, and it's pretty much an expected base utility. Removing it is going to cause quite a bit of confusion. On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: There are days when people get tired with the

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Emiel Kollof
* Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ummm, what are my scripts that use it going to use instead? it seems to work fine, and it's pretty much an expected base utility. Removing it is going to cause quite a bit of confusion. I have to concurr here. Who knows what's going to break when

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Gordon Tetlow
If this isn't a troll, I don't know what is On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of those things. The command is,

RE: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Dec-01 Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of those things. The command is, as you could have guessed from the subject, xags(1) aka

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:55:36PM +0100, Emiel Kollof wrote: * Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ummm, what are my scripts that use it going to use instead? it seems to work fine, and it's pretty much an expected base utility. Removing it is going to cause quite a bit of

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Andrea Campi
Either this is a troll, or it's an attempt at the very first layer 8 (between chair and keyboard) exploit: Version #2 - for enterprise (ie. business) users, who are searching for their way in life (overwhelming majority) (local solution, still): find / -print0 | grep -v

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Emiel Kollof
* Jordan Hubbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My, is it April 1st already? How quickly time flies! December feels like it was just yesterday! You can say that again... I missed my birthday and the new-years party too. I'm such a geek... :-) Cheers, Emiel -- No man is an island, but some of

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Jordan Hubbard
My, is it April 1st already? How quickly time flies! December feels like it was just yesterday! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Dec-01 Brian F. Feldman wrote: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian F. Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 17:11] wrote: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1),

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: [ ... plot to murder innocent xargs command ... ] Please don't. I use this on a daily basis. It is a much faster way to use find than exec, since it doesn't require a billion instances of grep. As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1),