bug#1065: [BusyBox] bug#1065: New xargs bug!

[David Douthitt]

This bug isn't new, it's now 22 days old.  But anyway...

On 13 Nov 2000, at 16:37, Kent Robotti wrote:

> # find . -name "file*" | xargs ls
> 
> ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 
> 
> # find . -name "file*" | xargs ls -l
> 
> ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 
> 
> It doesn't seem to recognize any
> arguments beyond 1.

I suspect that somewhere ( spawn* ?  exec* ? ), xargs is putting out 
the read arguments like this:

("cmd", "cmdargs", "filearg filearg2 filearg3")

instead of

("cmd", "cmdargs", "filearg", "filearg2", "filearg3")

....

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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
ddouthitt at mennonite.minister.net