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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-05-08 Barton E. Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org> + + * unposted, see users/17062: Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo: Briefly describe + option semantic differences from xargs to zargs. (Merged with + PWS edits.) + 2012-05-08 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> * 30469: Src/builtin.c: allow reverse listing of history using @@ -16284,5 +16290,5 @@ ***************************************************** * This is used by the shell to define $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL -* $Revision: 1.5649 $ +* $Revision: 1.5650 $ ***************************************************** diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo b/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo index 2a22d23ab..ea96d5dbc 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo @@ -3501,6 +3501,13 @@ example(zargs -e.. -- **/*(.) .. ls -l) This is a good choice in that example because no plain file can be named `tt(..)', but the best end-marker depends on the circumstances. +The options tt(-i), tt(-I), tt(-l), tt(-L), and tt(-n) differ slightly +from their usage in tt(xargs). There are no input lines for tt(zargs) to +count, so tt(-l) and tt(-L) count through the var(input) list, and tt(-n) +counts the number of arguments passed to each execution of var(command), +em(including) any var(arg) list. Also, any time tt(-i) or tt(-I) is used, +each var(input) is processed separately as if by `tt(-L) tt(1)'. + For details of the other tt(zargs) options, see zmanref(xargs) (but note the difference in function between tt(zargs) and tt(xargs)) or run tt(zargs) with the tt(-)tt(-help) option. |