Re: xargs --negate-interactive

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "BV" == Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> writes:

BV> Although you're maybe right from the logical point of view, I'm not
BV> sure if 'xargs -p' is used often enough to warrant adding such an option
BV> to the code.  The next user may then come and want to have yet another
BV> option like --interactive-assume-n to type RET RET RET and pass a
BV> 'y' just for the argument [s]he want the command to be run.

Well all I know is currently one would use

RET y RET RET RET y RET y RET

so how about a choice to reverse it to

n RET RET n RET n RET RET RET

to get the same effect.

of course if they wanted to type

n RET y RET n RET n RET y RET y RET

then no changes are needed to the current version.

Wait, how about an option to eliminate the need for RET:

so now all they would need to type is

RET y     RET RET y     y
or even
x   y     x   x   y     y
or any non y ...
wait, how about just n,y,and q(to quit), and maybe "." to do 'execute
this last one and then quit." No RET.

Or even a way to configure what keys are wanted.

No I don't think there is another program that can do all this.