27 Feb
2013
27 Feb
'13
9:27 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:54:33PM -0800, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
My recollection (supported by my 1990 book) is that
xargs came from
PWB for use with the Mashey shell, before we had the `command`
construct.
oh indeed, PWB/UNIX 1.0, here's even some source:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1/sys/source/s2/xargs.c
Sven