Re: Changes to xargs option (-L/-n) handling by the Austin Group

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-06-24 James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have not been able to determine the impact of this change on GNU
> findutils,
[...]
> The -I, -L, and -n options are mutually-exclusive.
> Some implementations use the last one specified if more than
> one is given on a command line , other implementations treat combinations
> of the options in different ways.
[...]

This offers the possibility to clean up -I, -L, and -n interaction,
from "last one wins" to 
{ echo mutually-exclusive options specified. exiting ; exit 1; }
              cu andreas
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