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xargs -p looks crappy


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: xargs -p looks crappy
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 05:52:26 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu)

Often the results bury the questions:
$ seq 1 1 7|xargs -p -n 1 expr 90 +
expr 90 + 1 ?...
expr 90 + 2 ?...y
expr 90 + 3 ?...92

As proof I'm not off my rocker, find works:
$ find /tmp -ok echo {} \;
< echo ... /tmp > ? 
< echo ... /tmp/.X11-unix > ? 
< echo ... /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 > ? y
/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
< echo ... /tmp/.X11-unix/X64 > ? 
< echo ... /tmp/.font-unix > ? y
/tmp/.font-unix
< echo ... /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100 > ? 
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