On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:30:45AM -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:21, Dan McGee <dpmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > >> Only occurs if no arguments were provided directly. Arguments can be > >> separated by any amount of valid whitespace. This allows for piping into > >> pacman from other programs or from itself, e.g.: > >> > >> pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs > > > > What's wrong with xargs? > You can also just do pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt) >
I hadn't considered xargs, but 'pacman -Xnn $()' always felt awkward to me compared to pipes. I suppose this doesn't provide any _extra_ functionality, but it seemed like an easy enough addition for something that's a seemingly ubiquitous feature in *nix userspace. I understand if you consider this to be redundant. d
