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Random historical note -- xargs dates back to 1977 or 78 -- https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/comp.unix.questions/vG2keVnENmo/LkZN5orQrwcJ https://groups.
by pm215 7y ago
Random historical note -- xargs dates back to 1977 or 78 -- https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/comp.unix.questions/vG2keVnENmo/LkZN5orQrwcJ https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/comp.unix.questions/... has a post in 1988 from the original author saying they wrote it at Bell Labs a decade before, and that it actually predates the Bourne shell itself.
- chubot 7y agoWow, nice find :) I'm a fan of xargs, so I saved it here: http://www.oilshell.org/archive/xargs-history-usenet/LkZN5orQrwcJ http://www.oilshell.org/archive/xargs-history-usenet/LkZN5or...