Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs
Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
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On 3/14/23 05:01, Nature 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. It saves one char of typing - remember everybody is lazy - and disk space. :-) Have a nice day, Berny