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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:14:35 +0000
From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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	"Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>,
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Subject: Re: patch for review: xargs standards compliance
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:02:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:40:26AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > No, Solaris' xargs specifically checks that the argument to -E and -I
> > > is not empty.  I have the source in front of me.
> > Should we do this then?
> 
> Why not?  An empty string doesn't make sense for either of them.

http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/xargs.patch3

freefall% ./xargs -I ''
xargs: replstr may not be empty

I'm referring to it as 'replstr' as it is referred to as such in:
	o) The code
	o) The manpage
	o) The usage()

Thanks,
	/j.

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