Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs

Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:02:03 +0200

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> 
> On 14 Mar 2023, at 5:11 PM, Nature <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi:
>    Learned from Wikipedia :   xargs (short for "extended arguments") is a
> command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems.
> 
>    Why isn't it called exargs, but xargs.  Would love to know what was
> considered at the time.

The name of the Latin letter x is “ex.”

Regards,
Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou