From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mascheck@in-ulm.de (Sven Mascheck)
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:27:22 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] xargs - where from?
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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