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authorEric Andersen2000-09-25 22:53:05 +0000
committerEric Andersen2000-09-25 22:53:05 +0000
commitd89882da164d4e4f3506a85f27f3fd2bdd7b810a (patch)
treecf639a03d96c30918c637333f48e7aac8a298aee /xargs.c
parent3570a34de46b1f7dedd16999bb1687e2d6b55d40 (diff)
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Some more polish to make xargs act like GNU xargs (thanks to kent robotti
<robotti@metconnect.com> for testing and pointing out the differences) -Erik
Diffstat (limited to 'xargs.c')
-rw-r--r--xargs.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/xargs.c b/xargs.c
index 4a3fe3c..beada7a 100644
--- a/xargs.c
+++ b/xargs.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ int xargs_main(int argc, char **argv)
char *args = NULL;
char *cmd_to_be_executed = NULL;
char traceflag = 0;
- int len_args=10, len_cmd_to_be_executed, opt;
+ int len_args=2, len_cmd_to_be_executed, opt;
pid_t pid;
int wpid, status;
@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@ int xargs_main(int argc, char **argv)
strcat(cmd_to_be_executed, *argv);
}
+ args=xrealloc(args, len_args);
+ strcpy(args, " ");
- /* Now, read in one line at a time from stdin, and stroe this to be used later
- * as an argument to the command we just stored */
+ /* Now, read in one line at a time from stdin, and store this
+ * line to be used later as an argument to the command */
in_from_stdin = get_line_from_file(stdin);
for (;in_from_stdin!=NULL;) {
char *tmp;
@@ -111,8 +113,7 @@ int xargs_main(int argc, char **argv)
}
if (traceflag==1) {
- fputs(cmd_to_be_executed, stderr);
- fputs(args, stderr);
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s%s\n", cmd_to_be_executed, args);
}
if ((pid = fork()) == 0) {