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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: xargs and upstream bug?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:02:03 +0000
Message-Id: <091920051902.24857.432F0B2A000B52E00000611922064244130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> 
> just checking to see if is just a cygwin issue or is up stream.
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=14587

Well, seeing as how it is a bug in the upstream database, it
must be upstream :)  See also my report at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2005-08/msg00037.html

POSIX requires -L, and requires -L to take an argument (ie.
it is not optional).  GNU xargs also provides -l as a synonym,
except that with -l, the argument is optional and defaults
to 1.

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