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To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, olli@secnetix.de
Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)
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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

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