[Toybox] [PATCH] xargs: add --max-args synonym, -o option, and fix -p.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Aug 23 09:37:59 PDT 2019


On 8/23/19 11:09 AM, enh wrote:
> No. Is it really TODO, or is it more like "this might have mattered 30 years
> ago, but..."?

Eh, Rich Felker was kinda adamant about it. But between:

  https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/48162c4ee3fb
  https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/833fb23fe8b4
  https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/8c588d822a47

I've kind of lost faith in his judgement. He's not wrong about stuff _that_
often, but when he is he digs in and doubles down.

I should add a "deviations from posix" note, though.

Rob



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