Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:33:12 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gad@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch Message-ID: <p05100e05b7225a189fa3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010512010319.B3B893E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010512010319.B3B893E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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At 6:03 PM -0700 5/11/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>Comments? Suggestions?
The one oddity I forgot to ask Dima about was in the man page.
We included an example, which in nroff source is:
>+For example, the following command will copy the list of files and
>+directories which start with an uppercase letter in the current
>+directory to
>+.Pa destdir :
>+.Pp
>+.Dl /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp [] destdir
>+.Pp
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
I keep meaning to test this on -current, but my freebsd-current
box is at home, and I never remember to try this when I get
home. But at least on -stable, it seems that ANYTHING I put
after the 'cp -rp' gets translated into '/bin/ls0 0/bin/ls1'.
This seems odd to me, but then I don't really know what any
of the nroff macros are doing. (insert weak smiley here)
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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