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From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM AT learnquick DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Xargs positioning the arguments in a command -- is this a bug or a feature?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:33:18 -0500
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> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Eric Blake
> > It is an unusual command that requires switches to appear in a 
> > specific order, especially when the switches are not directly 
> > dependent on each other.
> 
> The upcoming findutils-4.2.25-1 (whenever upstream releases 
> 4.2.25) better documents this.  -i is being deprecated in 
> favor of POSIX -I, which requires an argument, whereas the 
> non-standard -i treated its argument as optional.  So what 
> may be happening (although you'd actually have to debug to 
> see for sure) is that -i -n treats -n as the string to 
> replace, instead of the default {}.  But that sounds odd, and 
> it may be an upstream bug; I'll investigate further.
> 
> --
> Eric Blake

Thanks, Eric.  That is very cool of you to check.

FYI:  I had trouble with -I, and with --string,
and even trying to specify the replacement string
using -i, although I didn't exercise those other
options as carefully as the "-i" and default {}.

--
Herb Martin



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