Re: xargs prompts with the same string, but executes differently

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Well all I know is the whole idea of xargs is to *separate* the things
coming in into separate arguments.

So when the user uses -I, he expects it to just act the same, with the
extra feature being that he can now also put things into the beginning
or middle of lines, not just the ends.

Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that those things would be
glued together.

Sure, his eyeballs see

BV>   "[...]
BV>     Also, unquoted blanks do not terminate input items;
BV>    instead the separator is the newline character.
BV>   "

but he cannot grasp that that has anything to do with this. Nor can I.

So maybe xargs needs a new -T or whatever. Like -I but doesn't
"spitefully" glue one's arguments together.

And, the -I documentation needs to add a clear example, showing the user
that just in case he is using more than one input, he better expect them
to get glued together.