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| author | mux <mux@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-23 18:29:52 +0000 |
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| committer | mux <mux@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-23 18:29:52 +0000 |
| commit | 76bd33cd1b93dd2343898e0f0cdb4a8aa1b46271 (patch) | |
| tree | d8dea2198fb4b799619a7cf539bb2ec6eaf22d25 /usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 | |
| parent | 9785758af05bf04abf659e455022398d1923565b (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-76bd33cd1b93dd2343898e0f0cdb4a8aa1b46271.zip FreeBSD-src-76bd33cd1b93dd2343898e0f0cdb4a8aa1b46271.tar.gz | |
Add a new -o option to tell xargs(1) to reopen /dev/tty as stdin in
the child process, before executing the command. This is very useful
when you do stuff like ``find ... | xargs interactive_application''.
Without -o, the application would inherit the pipe as its stdin, and
you thus lose any control over it.
This flag has been carefully chosen to not conflit with other options
of other xargs utilities like GNU xargs.
Reviewed by: jmallett
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 b/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 index 7c2f70b..a36edd1 100644 --- a/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 +++ b/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ .Nd "construct argument list(s) and execute utility" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm -.Op Fl 0pt +.Op Fl 0opt .Op Fl E Ar eofstr .Oo .Fl I Ar replstr @@ -192,6 +192,13 @@ arguments remaining for the last invocation of The current default value for .Ar number is 5000. +.It Fl o +Reopen stdin as +.Dq /dev/tty +in the child process before executing the command. +This is useful if you want +.Nm +to run an interactive application. .It Fl P Ar maxprocs Parallel mode: run at most .Ar maxprocs @@ -287,7 +294,7 @@ utility is expected to be .St -p1003.2 compliant. The -.Fl J , P +.Fl J , o , P and .Fl R options are non-standard |
