From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 12 0:12: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4E237B41B for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:11:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fBC8Af715217; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:10:41 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:10:41 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Jackie 'business-first' Cook" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system Message-ID: <20011212101041.E11552@sunbay.com> References: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i 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 Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:13:35PM -0800, 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. > It's also a part of just ratified POSIX.1-2001 standard. -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message