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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
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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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