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Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:26:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: zargs: unexpected, non-xargs behaviour
From: Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
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Hey,

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org> wrote:

> Well, then zargs is not POSIX compliant...

...and also not equivalent to GNU xargs.

Also: In GNU xargs "-L" and "-n" have the very, very important
distinction that "-L" implies "-x" while "-n" does not (GNU xargs from
findutils 4.4.2).

Kind regards,
mo