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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:20:46 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: no xargs -i flag
Message-ID:  <20020924232046.GD28112@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20020924184251.J64949-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
References:  <20020924184251.J64949-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>

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On 2002-09-24 18:48, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> wrote:
> I'm surprised that xargs has no flag for interactive mode (-i) so that the
> command line will be echoed to the terminal asking [y/n/!] where y means yes
> proceed and n means no stop now and ! would mean answer y to all remaining
> promptings.

So, what would you do when a thousand files are piped to xargs? :)
Write 'yes' a thousand times?

Giorgos.

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