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Re: Changes to xargs option (-L/-n) handling by the Austin Group
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James Youngman |
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Re: Changes to xargs option (-L/-n) handling by the Austin Group |
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Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:50:57 +0100 |
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 05:21:08PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> This offers the possibility to clean up -I, -L, and -n interaction,
> from "last one wins" to
> { echo mutually-exclusive options specified. exiting ; exit 1; }
> cu andreas
Of course this has the possibility of breaking existing scripts, so in
the meantime we will probably just spit out a warning that the options
are mutuially incompatible and their effect is not portable.
James.