Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 17:23:16 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch Message-ID: <p05100e06b723599d845a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010512033730.E8F2E3E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010512033730.E8F2E3E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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At 8:37 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote: >Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes: > > When I install this man page on -stable, and do a 'man xargs', >> that last line is displayed to the user as: >> > > /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp /bin/ls0 0/bin/ls1 > >... Old versions of mdoc (read: anything before about a month >ago) had a silly limit on the number of arguments. This isn't >a problem on any recent -current or -stable. Okay, I updated my -stable machine, and the man page does display fine now. looks good. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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