CygWin 1.5.18
I was trying to create a date-time-sortable list of
files with an appended tag for each entry (ham or
spam flag if you care about the detail) and had some
difficulty with xargs:
dir -gGtcr --time-style=+%Y%m%d%X | cut -c 24- | xargs -i -n 2 echo {}
MORE_STUFF
...doesn't work -- i.e., "{}" appears in the output.
However, reversing the switches does work as expected:
dir -gGtcr --time-style=+%Y%m%d%X | cut -c 24- | xargs -n 2 -i echo {}
MORE_STUFF
I am curious if this is expected behavior as I didn't
see any warning in the xarg --help or man/info entries.
It is an unusual command that requires switches to
appear in a specific order, especially when the
switches are not directly dependent on each other.
--
Herb Martin
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