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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Message-ID: <10263@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 6 Nov 90 20:33:46 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.123025.18012@kodak.kodak.com> <14225@smoke.BRL.MIL> <110982@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <110982@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim Cottrell) writes:
: In article <14225@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
: >(If you don't have "xargs", complain to your vendor.)
: 
: There is a public domain version in volume3
: of comp.sources.unix. Others probably exist.
: 
: But Doug is right, your vendor has no excuse not to have it.

...apart from the fact that it's insecure, and is a total kludge to work
around the inconsistencies of the Unix tool I/O interface.

Other than that, it's great!  :-)

I might even use it someday.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov