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Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs
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James Youngman |
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Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs |
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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 09:41:57 +0000 |
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 6:12 PM James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> wrote:
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> Interesting question. I just asked Herb Gellis, the inventor of
> xargs. No answer yet.
The answer turns out to be "eXecute command with ARGumentS". The
first letter is "x" because there was no other command beginning with
"x" at the time.
The attached patch adds an explanation to the documentation. Comments
are very welcome. I will apply this myself if there's no feedback
after a couple of days.
Thanks,
James.
0001-doc-describe-history-of-find-xargs-and-locate.patch
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