From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 18:39:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100F037B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957A643E6E for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98BD2B8BD; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 03:39:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0EB0A6A7124; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:39:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:39:39 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: no xargs -i flag Message-ID: <20020925013938.GB522@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD LIST References: <20020924184251.J64949-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020924184251.J64949-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:48:15PM -0400, Peter Leftwich 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. If you're comparing it with Linux, it's -p or --interactive. -i is for replacing. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message