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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:06:42 +0100
From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
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Subject: Problems with zargs (Was: xargs should be a builtin)
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2012-04-11 09:44:48 +0200, Frank Terbeck:
> Dave Yost wrote:
> > Many’s the time I’ve wanted to use it to invoke a shell function.
> 
> autoload -Uz zargs
> man zshcontrib | less -p '^  *zargs *\['
[...]

By the way, there seems to be some issues with zargs:

~$ zargs a b '' -- print -rl
a
b
~$ zargs a -- print -rl ''
a
~$ zargs -e a '' print -rl
a print -rl
~$ zargs --eof= a '' print -rl
a
~$ echo $ZSH_VERSION $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL
4.3.17 Debian

-- 
Stephane