From: mascheck@in-ulm.de (Sven Mascheck)
Subject: [TUHS] xargs - where from?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:27:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130227032722.GA10487@lisa.in-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512D6759.4030908@mhorton.net>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:54:33PM -0800, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> My recollection (supported by my 1990 book) is that xargs came from
> PWB for use with the Mashey shell, before we had the `command`
> construct.
oh indeed, PWB/UNIX 1.0, here's even some source:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1/sys/source/s2/xargs.c
Sven
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-27 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-27 0:28 Steve Simon
2013-02-27 1:54 ` Mary Ann Horton
2013-02-27 2:03 ` Scot Jenkins
2013-02-27 3:27 ` Sven Mascheck [this message]
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