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Re: typo in error message 'can not fit single argument ...'


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: typo in error message 'can not fit single argument ...'
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 21:16:18 +0100

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Andreas Bernauer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> $ echo foo | xargs -s1 echo
> xargs: can not fit single argument within argument list size limit
>
> I'd say, the error message should read:
> xargs: cannot fit single argument within argument list size limit
>
> Note 'can not' --> 'cannot'.
>
> Attached a patch against the findutils 4.4.2 tarball.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I made the wording change as you suggested
(though not with your patch, since the patch file didn't include any
changes, I think).

James.



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