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[Larry Wall]

In article <110982 at uunet.UU.NET> rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim Cottrell) writes:
: In article <14225 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at 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 at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov