Re: Looking for sage advice

[Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>]

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> On Aug 15, 2022, at 16:42, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:04 PM Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I want to write “something” that effectively does
>> 
>> function xlargs
>> {
>>  tr ‘\n’ ‘\0’ | xargs -0 $*
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> Would you recommend doing this as an autoload function or as an alias?  The reason I ask is because back when I used bash and something called rvm, all of my aliases proved to be a horrible wrench for their bash shell scripts.  So I’ve sorta sworn off of aliases but I’m wondering if that is imprudent.
> 
> If you are doing multiple commands I would do a function, but I wonder
> what's the point of this when you can do: xargs -d '\n' $*

Thank you.

It appears that neither macOS nor Free BSD have the -d option.  I see it in the Linux documentation but, yes, that is exactly what I’m needing.


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