27 Feb
2013
27 Feb
'13
12:28 a.m.
Ok,
another trivia question.
where did xargs come from? I started with Edition 7 (Perkin Elmer
V7 + bits of BSD 2.1) and I am pretty sure it wasn't there.
I have a feeling it was printed in a book as shell script, somthing
like Bourne's book, or Kernighan and Pike but I'am not sure.
Anyone remember?
-Steve
27 Feb
27 Feb
1:54 a.m.
My recollection (supported by my 1990 book) is that xargs came from PWB
for use with the Mashey shell, before we had the `command` construct.
On 02/26/2013 04:28 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
Ok,
another trivia question.
where did xargs come from? I started with Edition 7 (Perkin Elmer
V7 + bits of BSD 2.1) and I am pretty sure it wasn't there.
I have a feeling it was printed in a book as shell script, somthing
like Bourne's book, or Kernighan and Pike but I'am not sure.
Anyone remember?
-Steve
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2:03 a.m.
On 02/26/2013 04:28 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> where did xargs come from? I started with Edition 7 (Perkin Elmer
> V7 + bits of BSD 2.1) and I am pretty sure it wasn't there.
>
> -Steve
Mary Ann Horton wrote:
My recollection (supported by my 1990 book) is that
xargs came from PWB
for use with the Mashey shell, before we had the `command` construct.
FreeBSD [1] and NetBSD [2] man pages (see HISTORY section)
seem to confirm PWB as the source.
[1]
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xargs&apropos=0&sektion=0&…
[2] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?xargs++NetBSD-current
scot
3:27 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:54:33PM -0800, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
My recollection (supported by my 1990 book) is that
xargs came from
PWB for use with the Mashey shell, before we had the `command`
construct.
oh indeed, PWB/UNIX 1.0, here's even some source:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1/sys/source/s2/xargs.c
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