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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:14:16 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: mike@NetworX.ie
Cc: FreeBSD Support <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Brain-damaged xargs
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On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 09:13:21PM +0000, Michael Ryan wrote:
> For once, I've met a utility in FreeBSD where the SysV
> counterpart is better.
>
> FreeBSD's xargs doesn't support the "{}" placeholder.  Nor
> does it have the "-l" flag.
>
> Anybody know if a fully featured xargs is available?

The xargs in GNU findutils appears to have both these features.  It's
available from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/findutils-?, and it
compiles out of the box:

  tar xvfz findutils-4.1.tar.gz
  cd findutils-4.1
  ./configure
  make install

Check the version number before you download.

Greg