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[Kent Landfield]

In article <677 at lakart.UUCP> dg at 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 at 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 at 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 ---------------

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