[PATCH 30/42] xargs.1: fix truncated examples on old troff

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:48:38 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID	<20251119034838.yzcpx5qembj6mgq2@illithid>

Seventh Edition Unix man(7)[1] and its descendants handle at most six
arguments to macros.  Excess arguments are ignored and not formatted.

[1] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an
---
 xargs/xargs.1 | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xargs/xargs.1 b/xargs/xargs.1
index b6c2a786..a5dc2313 100644
--- a/xargs/xargs.1
+++ b/xargs/xargs.1
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ .SH OPTIONS
 .
 .SH "EXAMPLES"
 .nf
-.B find /tmp \-name core \-type f \-print | xargs /bin/rm \-f
+.B "find /tmp \-name core \-type f \-print | xargs /bin/rm \-f"
 .fi
 .P
 Find files named
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ .SH "EXAMPLES"
 any filenames containing newlines or spaces.
 .
 .P
-.B find /tmp \-name core \-type f \-print0 | xargs \-0 /bin/rm \-f
+.B "find /tmp \-name core \-type f \-print0 | xargs \-0 /bin/rm \-f"
 .P
 Find files named
 .B core
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ .SH "EXAMPLES"
 directory names containing spaces or newlines are correctly handled.
 .
 .P
-.B find /tmp \-depth \-name core \-type f \-delete
+.B "find /tmp \-depth \-name core \-type f \-delete"
 .P
 Find files named
 .B core
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ .SH "EXAMPLES"
 .
 .P
 .nf
-.B cut \-d: \-f1 < /etc/passwd | sort | xargs echo
+.B "cut \-d: \-f1 < /etc/passwd | sort | xargs echo"
 .
 .fi
 Generates a compact listing of all the users on the system.
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2.30.2

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