A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1861 ====================================================================== Reported By: stephane Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2024)/Issue8 Issue ID: 1861 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Error Severity: Objection Priority: normal Status: New Name: Stephane Chazelas Organization: User Reference: Section: xargs utility Page Number: 3601 Line Number: 123207-123214 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2024-10-11 12:32 UTC Last Modified: 2024-10-12 05:57 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: xargs -L broken by https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=243 resolution ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0006914) stephane (reporter) - 2024-10-12 05:57 https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1861#c6914 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the record, AFAIK, -L is a POSIX invention. The original was -l, likely from SunOS (also found on GNU), except the number is optional for -l which is likely why POSIX didn't specify it (like for -I, -E). The 2018 text closely resembles that of the SunOS man page from the 80s. In any case, I would agree that being able to take arguments from whole lines of input, verbatim, is badly missing, but that's not what -l/-L are about. For that, see the -d '\n' option of GNU xargs (which can be combined with -n, -L, -I...) Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2024-10-11 12:32 stephane New Issue 2024-10-11 12:32 stephane Name => Stephane Chazelas 2024-10-11 12:32 stephane Section => xargs utility 2024-10-11 12:32 stephane Page Number => 3601 2024-10-11 12:32 stephane Line Number => 123207-123214 2024-10-11 16:28 stephane Note Added: 0006913 2024-10-12 05:57 stephane Note Added: 0006914 ======================================================================
