The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1628
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Reported By: mirabilos
Assigned To:
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Project: Online Pubs
Issue ID: 1628
Category: Shell and Utilities
Type: Enhancement Request
Severity: Editorial
Priority: normal
Status: New
Name: mirabilos
Organization: MirBSD
User Reference:
URL:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/xargs.html
Section: xargs(1)
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Date Submitted: 2023-01-15 17:18 UTC
Last Modified: 2023-01-15 17:18 UTC
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Summary: Add -o (reopen stdin) option to xargs(1)
Description:
Now that 243 is accepted, I would like to request the addition of another
option to xargs(1) to make it really useful. It’s a BSD thing:
-o Reopen stdin as /dev/tty in the child process before
executing
the command. This is useful if you want xargs to run an
interac-
tive application.
I’ve been using this a *lot*, as something like…
$ git find \*.h -print0 | xargs -0o $EDITOR
… (where https://github.com/mirabilos/git-find/ is the tool in question),
or with just a simple find, or a (git) grep -Z. I also have been able to
successfully convince GNU coreutils to add precisely this (they also added
a GNU --long-option but added it with -o for BSD compatibility). (I know I
should use -0or but I lazily skip the -r if I know there’s at least one
anyway.)
Desired Action:
In SYNOPSIS, change -0ptrx to -0optrx.
In DESCRIPTION, where it says the results are unspecified if the utility
reads from stdin, add unless the -o flag is given.
In OPTIONS, add:
.It Fl o
Reopen stdin as
.Pa /dev/tty
in the child process before executing the command.
This is useful if you want
.Nm
to run an interactive application.
In INPUT FILES, mention that -o also uses /dev/tty.
Possibly add a suitable example; do we have grep -Z yet in POSIX (it’s
not in 243)? Otherwise, 'find . -name \*.h -print0 | xargs -0or $EDITOR'
will probably do.
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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2023-01-15 17:18 mirabilos New Issue
2023-01-15 17:18 mirabilos Name => mirabilos
2023-01-15 17:18 mirabilos Organization => MirBSD
2023-01-15 17:18 mirabilos URL =>
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/xargs.html
2023-01-15 17:18 mirabilos Section => xargs(1)
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