From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 14:56:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.gnf.org (relay.gnf.org [208.44.31.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCBA37B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gnf.org (smtp.gnf.org [10.0.0.11]) by relay.gnf.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBAMuAJ16134; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:56:10 -0800 Received: by mail.gnf.org (Postfix, from userid 888) id E2B5511E503; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:53:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gnf.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0AC011A577; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:53:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:53:16 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow To: "Jackie 'business-first' Cook" Cc: Subject: Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system In-Reply-To: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, as you could have > guessed from the subject, xags(1) aka /usr/bin/xargs. It is buggy and > cluttered piece of code. Faulty and hard to use command. It's > idiosyncratic syntax makes people dizzy everytime they use/or just try > to use it. Well, in that case, find(1) needs to be pitched as well for it's "idiosyncratic syntax" as well. Besides xargs is part of the POSIX 1003.2 Standard. Since we are trying to be POSIX compliant, xargs should stay. If you think the code is ugly, please feel free to fix it. Patches are most welcome. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message