Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!ssbell!kent From: kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: recursive grep Message-ID: <545@ssbell.UUCP> Date: 3 Sep 89 03:40:20 GMT References: <7774@cbmvax.UUCP> <677@lakart.UUCP> Reply-To: kent@ssbell.UUCP (ssbell Admin) Organization: Sterling Software, FSG-IMD, Bellevue, NE. Lines: 40 In article <677@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes: > >Great. Now what do all us Berkeley folks do when we don't have xargs. >How's about we pirate a copy from a local SysV site that happens to >have a source licence. Naahhhh - that might get us in trouble. :-) >-- > dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ Just look in your neighborhood comp.sources.unix archives. Volume 3 contains xargs. :-) No licencing violations needed. :-) It was posted to mod.sources before the great renaming... I have not tried it but here is the header from the posting for all that are interested... ---------------- Start Header - c.s.u/volume3/xargs --------------- Newsgroups: mod.sources Subject: xargs - execute a command with many arguments Message-ID: <1380@panda.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 86 14:43:16 GMT Mod.sources: Volume 3, Issue 106 Submitted by: seismo!amdahl!gam (Gordon A. Moffett) Here is a reimplementation of the System V utility xargs. I haven't heard any complaints about it, though [1] There is room for improvement regarding the command buffer size (tho' it is better than the System V area in that particular regard) [2] It does not have all the features of the System V version (as the man page points out). Gordon A. Moffett {ihnp4,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam ---------------- End Header - c.s.u/volume3/xargs --------------- -Kent+ --- Kent Landfield UUCP: kent@ssbell Sterling Software FSG/IMD INTERNET: kent@ssbell.uu.net 1404 Ft. Crook Rd. South Phone: (402) 291-8300 Bellevue, NE. 68005-2969 FAX: (402) 291-4362