Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs

Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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