Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jul 13, 10:25pm, perry%piermont.com@localhost ("Perry E. Metzger") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)

| On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:35:50 -0400 christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos
| Zoulas) wrote:
| > On Jul 13,  9:25pm, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) 
wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)
| > 
| > |  What about -i, -l, and -e (see the PR)?
| > 
| > These predate -I -L and -E (the POSIX versions) and are documented
| > to be obsolete in the linux man page.
| 
| POSIX doesn't seem to indicate that they're obsolete. It lists them
| at any rate, and describes their functions without deprecating them.
| 
| http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/xargs.html

Heh, looking at the 1997 man page will give you such information!!! :-)
Instead if you look the the "fresh" 2004 version:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/utilities/xargs.html

You'll also see the rationale for their removal.

christos