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

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Hi James,

I like all the recent manpage improvements, thanks!

On 7/8/26 10:09, James Youngman wrote:
> 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
>=20
> 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.

Good point!

BTW: Looking into the STANDARDS CONFORMANCE section, we have already -E ''=
 with:
   .B \-E \*'\*'
Would you prefer single-quotes over double-quotes here for consistency?


I've pushed the attached trivial patch to avoid 'make check-all-manpages' =
errors.

Have a nice day,
Berny


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