From: scotnospam12@sj.sdf.org (Scot Jenkins)
Subject: [TUHS] xargs - where from?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:03:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512D696E.2080107@sj.sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512D6759.4030908@mhorton.net>
> On 02/26/2013 04:28 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
>
>> where did xargs come from? I started with Edition 7 (Perkin Elmer
>> V7 + bits of BSD 2.1) and I am pretty sure it wasn't there.
>>
>> -Steve
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.
>
FreeBSD [1] and NetBSD [2] man pages (see HISTORY section)
seem to confirm PWB as the source.
[1]
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xargs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html
[2] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?xargs++NetBSD-current
scot
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-27 2:03 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 [this message]
2013-02-27 3:27 ` Sven Mascheck
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