Re: [PATCH 4/6] doc: POSIX 2004 added xargs option -p and removed -e and -i.

James Youngman <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 09:09:51 +0100

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On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 7:56=E2=80=AFAM Bernhard Voelker
<[email protected]> wrote:
> man swallows the "" as an empty second argumment to .B syntax.
> I propose using the following instead:
>
>    .B \-E \*(lq\*(rq

Thanks for spotting the problem.  I actually used \[dq]\[dq] so that
people can copy the text from the manpage (i.e. the output of "man
xargs") into a shell script and get the intended effect.

James.