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39 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Giorgos Keramidas
86ca3fd005 Revive '-opt' flags which I accidentally removed.
Noticed by:	simon
2008-01-27 16:20:36 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
a502340a03 Document the no-op -r option of BSD xargs(1).
PR:		docs/106416
Submitted by:	Pete Slagle, freebsd-stable at voidcaptain.com
MFC after:	3 days
2008-01-26 12:38:19 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
cb29445a92 Markup fixes. 2006-09-29 15:20:48 +00:00
Juli Mallett
ba084f6a80 Add a FreeBSD-specific -S flag which controls the maximum size of an argument
having replacements done in it via -I.
2005-12-30 23:25:41 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
90c69417b6 Wording tweaks.
PR:		not quite docs/84620
MFC after:	2 weeks
2005-12-07 12:33:52 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f682f10c76 Sync program's usage() with manpage's SYNOPSIS. 2005-05-21 09:55:10 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a866e17077 Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate. 2005-01-17 07:44:44 +00:00
Tim J. Robbins
f8fb286a84 Document incorrect handling of multibyte characters with -I and -J options. 2004-08-02 03:07:42 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
5c3fd35c88 Fix spelling error in my own paragraph. 2004-06-28 11:18:47 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
fa7f4291ff Markup bits.
Approved by:	re (blanket)
2003-05-21 21:07:28 +00:00
Maxime Henrion
98186e89da Add a new -o option to tell xargs(1) to reopen /dev/tty as stdin in
the child process, before executing the command.  This is very useful
when you do stuff like ``find ... | xargs interactive_application''.
Without -o, the application would inherit the pipe as its stdin, and
you thus lose any control over it.

This flag has been carefully chosen to not conflit with other options
of other xargs utilities like GNU xargs.

Reviewed by:	jmallett
2003-03-23 18:29:52 +00:00
Juli Mallett
3c67516766 Extend our -R extension which sets the number of arguments in which -I will
replace to support magic values less than zero, which mean to just go nuts
and expand as many as we want.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2003-02-26 22:44:32 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
4bb2c6860a A few changes for clarity.
PR:		47170
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com> (original version)
2003-01-27 18:16:36 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
57bd0fc6e8 english(4) police. 2002-12-27 12:15:40 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
5a9a189b52 mdoc(7) police: most -mdoc macros can take multiple arguments. 2002-12-23 15:15:35 +00:00
Tim J. Robbins
330d23f50e Add the -P option which executes multiple copies of the specified utility
in parallel. Idea from GNU xargs.
2002-12-21 10:17:13 +00:00
Juli Mallett
893305fe5e When giving an example that relies on shell expansion/globbing, don't use a
replstr for -J that will be interpereted by the shell.

MFC after:	1 day
2002-06-22 12:47:56 +00:00
Juli Mallett
6fc8ba94c6 Note that this appeared at least as early as PWB UNIX.
Use the literal string 'PWB UNIX', as we still have no .At macro for it.
2002-06-10 22:59:59 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
809a3054f6 mdoc(7) police: punctuation, miscellaneous. 2002-05-30 06:50:52 +00:00
Juli Mallett
5706d2e811 Fix a "tiny and squeeby and little" markup mistake.
Submitted by:	fenner
2002-05-14 22:55:31 +00:00
Juli Mallett
305e39f49b Modify the -p implementation to use a user's locale, so they can respond to
the prompt in their native language.

Also make the prompt fit what POSIX asks for (?...).

This should not affect use of -p with yes(1) [as every locale I know of matches
'y' as YESEXPR as well], but that's what -t is for anyway.  -p is meant to be
really used interactively.

Submitted by:	tjr, jmallett
2002-05-05 06:42:44 +00:00
Juli Mallett
943e841433 A markup fix, and document -R as non-standard. 2002-05-02 03:29:38 +00:00
Juli Mallett
b50a72861d Make -J a proper flag internal to the code (rather than just check for
use of replstr and lack of Iflag), and add -R, which when given with
-I controls the number of arguments on which replacement will be done.

Some people happen to think it's idiotic to limit to 5 arguments, so
let the user override it if they like.
2002-05-02 02:42:34 +00:00
Juli Mallett
fc17b349c8 After 3 months...
Merge xargs(1) with that of xMach.

Bring in xargs(1) changes to add -L and -I as per the Single Unix Specification
version 3.  Proper exit status numbers are implemented, and the manual page has
been updated to reflect reality.

The code has been ANSIfied, and a new file has been added to xargs(1) to do the
substring substitution as SUSv3 requires.

Traditional behaviour should not be affected, use of -J should be deprecated
in favor of the more portable -I (though -J has been left, for now).

Submitted by:	me, tjr (the exit status stuff)
Obtained from:	xMach
2002-04-19 23:28:54 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
ffb9c240d7 Spelling police: extention -> extension. 2001-07-05 08:51:08 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
8d904f1537 Add a -J replstr option that allows the user to tell xargs to insert
the data read from standard input at a specific point in the command
line arguments rather than at the end.

Submitted by:	dd, gad
Reviewed by:	gad, brian
2001-05-15 00:31:19 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
a9bc34c882 Alphabetize command-line options in the synopsis. 2001-05-02 06:41:46 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
471b9c332c mdoc(7) police: Fixed typo and markup in rev.1.11. 2001-04-13 09:15:16 +00:00
Brian Somers
c42584e853 o The -s limit is ARG_MAX - 4K, not ARG_MAX - 2K.
o Mention that the current environment is part of the -s calculation.
o Add a BUGS section that warns against executing a program that increases
  the size of the argument list or the size of the environment.

  I have wondered for a while what the difference is between

    get a big list | xargs sudo command

  which fails and

    get a big list | sudo xargs command

  which succeeds.  The answer is that in the first case, sudo expands
  the environment and pushes the amount of data passed into execve over
  the E2BIG threshold.
2001-04-10 23:16:55 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f4ddfb3865 Prepare for mdoc(7)NG. 2000-12-27 16:52:31 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
9b88faecd3 Prepare for mdoc(7)NG. 2000-12-19 16:00:12 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8fe908ef0c mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 19:21:22 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
5e8eb81aac Use .Xr 2000-03-26 15:05:40 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Nik Clayton
3be5f1f5ce Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:24:20 +00:00
Daniel O'Callaghan
749f6a2934 Submitted by: Peter Hawkins <peter@clari.net.au>
Spelling police.
1997-12-13 06:34:47 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
a51024e289 Use err(3) instead of local redefinition. 1997-08-27 06:26:23 +00:00
Warner Losh
d919888163 Reviewed by: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Submitted by:	Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Obtained from:	OpenBSD

Add -0 for reading the results of find -0.
1996-11-01 18:46:05 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
9b50d90275 BSD 4.4 Lite Usr.bin Sources 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +00:00