Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:07:19 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, olli@secnetix.de Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <20010421130719H.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <200104211959.VAA19256@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20010421110650E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200104211959.VAA19256@lurza.secnetix.de>
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> And to come back on topic: Portable scripts also should > _not_ assume that there are no limits on the length of > shell commands. On the other hand, portable scripts can > legitimately assume that xargs supports -i and -I, which > ours doesn't. Agreed on both counts. I guess we should fix that. > PS: FWIW, I also write a lot of awk scripts, which is my > favourite scripting language, but this is really getting > off-topic ... So do I, and you're right. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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