svn commit: r185708 - stable/6/usr.bin/xargs
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 6 06:33:25 PST 2008
Author: keramida (doc committer)
Date: Sat Dec 6 14:33:25 2008
New Revision: 185708
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185708
Log:
MFC: r175680, r175728.
Document the no-op -r option of BSD xargs(1).
PR: docs/106416
Submitted by: Pete Slagle, freebsd-stable at voidcaptain.com
Modified:
stable/6/usr.bin/xargs/ (props changed)
stable/6/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
Modified: stable/6/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
==============================================================================
--- stable/6/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 Sat Dec 6 14:23:45 2008 (r185707)
+++ stable/6/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 Sat Dec 6 14:33:25 2008 (r185708)
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\" $xMach: xargs.1,v 1.2 2002/02/23 05:23:37 tim Exp $
.\"
-.Dd August 2, 2004
+.Dd January 26, 2008
.Dt XARGS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
.Nd "construct argument list(s) and execute utility"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Op Fl 0opt
+.Op Fl 0oprt
.Op Fl E Ar eofstr
.Oo
.Fl I Ar replstr
@@ -213,6 +213,34 @@ in the POSIX locale,
causes the command to be executed, any other response causes it to be
skipped.
No commands are executed if the process is not attached to a terminal.
+.It Fl r
+Compatibility with GNU
+.Nm .
+The GNU version of
+.Nm
+runs the
+.Ar utility
+argument at least once, even if
+.Nm
+input is empty, and it supports a
+.Fl r
+option to inhibit this behavior.
+The
+.Fx
+version of
+.Nm
+does not run the
+.Ar utility
+argument on empty input, but it supports the
+.Fl r
+option for command-line compatibility with GNU
+.Nm ,
+but the
+.Fl r
+option does nothing in the
+.Fx
+version of
+.Nm .
.It Fl R Ar replacements
Specify the maximum number of arguments that
.Fl I
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