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Re: xargs -i explanation not clear enough without examples
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: xargs -i explanation not clear enough without examples |
Date: |
Sat, 17 May 2003 09:12:50 +0200 |
Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the xargs man page, this is not clear enough without examples:
> --replace[=replace-str], -i[replace-str]
> Replace occurences of replace-str in the initial arguments with
> names read from standard input. Also, unquoted blanks do not
> terminate arguments. If replace-str is omitted, it defaults to
> "{}" (like for `find -exec'). Implies -x and -l 1.
> I cannot find a Info page for more details.
The xargs info documentation is in find.info,
buried in the Actions/Run Commands/Multiple Files section.
So you can get to it with this command:
$ info find a r m
There most certainly should be a top-level directory entry for xargs.
Thanks for your recent suggestions regarding xargs.
It would be better to send them to address@hidden
(as distinct from bug-fileutils) or at least to send a note
to that list with the URLs of the reports you've sent to this one.
However, I don't know if there is currently a maintainer for
the findutils package.
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