From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 15: 3:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757F837B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:03:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7022 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 23:03:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Dec 2001 23:03:46 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:03:42 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Jackie 'business-first' Cook" Subject: RE: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 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 <>< 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