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authorjmallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-05 06:42:44 +0000
committerjmallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-05 06:42:44 +0000
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Modify the -p implementation to use a user's locale, so they can respond to
the prompt in their native language. Also make the prompt fit what POSIX asks for (?...). This should not affect use of -p with yes(1) [as every locale I know of matches 'y' as YESEXPR as well], but that's what -t is for anyway. -p is meant to be really used interactively. Submitted by: tjr, jmallett
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diff --git a/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 b/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
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@@ -194,10 +194,12 @@ is 5000.
.It Fl p
Echo each command to be executed and ask the user whether it should be
executed.
-A response of
+An affirmative response,
.Ql y
+in the POSIX locale,
causes the command to be executed, any other response causes it to be
skipped.
+No commands are executed if the process is not attached to a terminal.
.It Fl R Ar replacements
This option specifies the maximum number of arguments that
.Fl I
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