Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:03:42 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jackie 'business-first' Cook" <jackie@businessman.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system Message-ID: <XFMail.011210150342.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 10-Dec-01 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. Buggy? I haven't had problems with xargs(1). I think a more useful use of your time would be to actually describe the problems you have so they can be addressed. What Unix command doesn't have idiosyncratic syntax anyways? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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