From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 12 14:23:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5325C37B43E for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 14:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4CLNKc47482; Sat, 12 May 2001 17:23:23 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010512033730.E8F2E3E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010512033730.E8F2E3E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 17:23:16 -0400 To: Dima Dorfman From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:37 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote: >Garance A Drosihn writes: > > When I install this man page on -stable, and do a 'man xargs', >> that last line is displayed to the user as: >> > > /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp /bin/ls0 0/bin/ls1 > >... Old versions of mdoc (read: anything before about a month >ago) had a silly limit on the number of arguments. This isn't >a problem on any recent -current or -stable. Okay, I updated my -stable machine, and the man page does display fine now. looks good. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message