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Feature #676

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xargs does not support -r

Added by Andrew Stormont about 12 years ago. Updated about 12 years ago.

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New
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Normal
Assignee:
Roland Mainz
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Start date:
2011-01-27
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Description

The -r argument makes xargs only run the command when the input contains nonblanks.

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 #1

Updated by Roland Mainz about 12 years ago

  • Assignee set to Roland Mainz
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 #2

Updated by Jörg Schilling about 12 years ago

Correct: xargs does not have -r, see:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/xargs.html

Conclusion: there is no problem

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Updated by Andrew Stormont about 12 years ago

The GNU version does and more than a few scripts make use of it.

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