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From: steve@quintile.net (Steve Simon)
Subject: [TUHS] xargs - where from?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:28:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1a20a835b6a986011c71fa498808b83@quintile.net> (raw)

Ok,

another trivia question.

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.

I have a feeling it was printed in a book as shell script, somthing
like Bourne's book, or Kernighan and Pike but I'am not sure.

Anyone remember?

-Steve



             reply	other threads:[~2013-02-27  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-27  0:28 Steve Simon [this message]
2013-02-27  1:54 ` Mary Ann Horton
2013-02-27  2:03   ` Scot Jenkins
2013-02-27  3:27   ` Sven Mascheck

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