xargs

Name

xargs -- build and execute command lines from standard input

Description

xargs is as specified in POSIX 1003.1-2008 (ISO/IEC 9945-2009), but with differences as listed below.

Differences

-E 

has unspecified behavior.

-I 

has unspecified behavior.

-L 

has unspecified behavior.

Note: These options have been implemented in findutils-4.2.9, but this version of the utilities is not in widespread use as of April 2005. However, future versions of this specification will require support for these arguments.