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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.1 xargs.c
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<<On Thu, 2 May 2002 03:29:11 +0000, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> said:

> I want to add -i to be compatible with GNU, but I can't figure out
> how getopt(3) can best be used to deal with an option that
> may-or-may-not take an argument.

Since the Utility Syntax Guidelines prohibit such optional arguments,
I'd advise against doing so.

-GAWollman


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