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Date:      Wed, 1 May 2002 23:32:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.1 xargs.c
Message-ID:  <200205020332.g423WroO017406@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020502032910.GA21076@FreeBSD.ORG>
References:  <200205020242.g422gYg56815@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020502032910.GA21076@FreeBSD.ORG>

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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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