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From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: of shell, find, and (g)xargs (Re: mass uninstall all ports?)
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on Jul 17 01:27, i got this from Dima...
> parv <parv_@yahoo.com> writes:
> > ...but since freebsd's xargs doesn't support anything like gnu xargs' '-i'
> 
> Yes it does.  Here's an excerpt from xargs(1):
> 
>      -J replstr
>              If this option is specified, xargs will use the data read from
>              standard input to replace the first occurrence of replstr instead
>              of appending that data after all other arguments.  This option
...
> 
>                    /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp [] destdir
> 
> It's not compatible with -i, but it would've served your purpose.

not over here. here is the synopsis from man page:


SNYOPSIS
  xargs [-0] [-t] [-n number [-x]] [-s size] [utility [argument ...]]


may be it was been added after i made the world (before jun 24, 2001).


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	 - parv

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