[BusyBox] Problems with xargs !!!

[Steven Scholz]

Ronny Arild schrieb:
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: Steven Scholz [mailto:steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de]
> 
> |  But would it be hard to change busybox's xargs to behave 
> |  like xargs on other (let's say MY) machine!?
> |  
> |  So while parsing the command line just treat everything 
> |  after (and including) the first argument without a "-" as the [command 
> |  [initial-arguments]] as stated in xargs' man page.
> |  
> |  ~# find . -name rc.sh | xargs -t egrep -n "ipcal"
> |                                  |   |    |
> |                                  |   |    +- initial-arguments
> |                                  |   +------ command (no "-")
> |                                  +---------- xargs argument
> 
> You can solve this by adding the following code to xargs_main():
> 
>  int xargs_argc;
> 
>  for (xargs_argc = 1; xargs_argc < argc; xargs_argc++)
>         if (*argv[xargs_argc] != '-')
>                 break;
> 
> Then use xargs_argc as parameter to getopt() instead of argc, and
> also use xargs_argc instead of optind below.

Thanks!

You mean something like that? (see attached file).

BTW: I think option "-p" (Prompt the user about whether to run each command) 
is not working!

Steven
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