The following reply was made to PR bin/36074; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/36074: xargs missing key posix functionality
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:21:55 +0000

 On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 05:10:01AM +0000, mtbakerguy@yahoo.com wrote:
 > >Number:         36074
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       xargs missing key posix functionality
 > 
 >    ls *.x | sed 's/.x//' | xargs -I {} echo {}.x {}.y
 > 
 > *http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xargs.html
 
 Not that this isn't posix functionality as it is marked 'XSI' on the
 above page.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk