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
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.\" $FreeBSD$
.\" $xMach: xargs.1,v 1.2 2002/02/23 05:23:37 tim Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 30, 2005
.Dd January 26, 2008
.Dt XARGS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Nd "construct argument list(s) and execute utility"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl 0opt
.Op Fl 0r
.Op Fl E Ar eofstr
.Oo
.Fl I Ar replstr
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causes the command to be executed, any other response causes it to be
skipped.
No commands are executed if the process is not attached to a terminal.
.It Fl r
Compatibility with GNU
.Nm .
The GNU version of
.Nm
runs the
.Ar utility
argument at least once, even if
.Nm
input is empty, and it supports a
.Fl r
option to inhibit this behavior.
The
.Fx
version of
.Nm
does not run the
.Ar utility
argument on empty input, but it supports the
.Fl r
option for command-line compatibility with GNU
.Nm ,
but the
.Fl r
option does nothing in the
.Fx
version of
.Nm .
.It Fl R Ar replacements
Specify the maximum number of arguments that
.Fl I