bugfindutils - Bugs: bug #20891, exit status enhancement for xargs

 
 

bug #20891: exit status enhancement for xargs

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Sat 25 Aug 2007 02:01:34 AM UTC  
 
Category: xargsSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: None
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Philip RowlandsOriginator Email: -unavailable-
Open/Closed: OpenRelease: None
Fixed Release: None

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Sun 26 Jul 2009 11:30:02 PM UTC, comment #2:

If you had indicated who you were, O Anonymous, I could have helped you better I think. But anyway, I can't reproducte the problem I think you're describing with findutils 4.4.0 or 4.5.6-git.

~$ echo a b c | xargs false ; echo $?
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James Youngman <jay>
Project Administrator
Thu 23 Jul 2009 05:27:17 PM UTC, comment #1:

It seems incompatible with other platforms' xargs implementation as well as even the find, that if the command formed by xarg encounters an error, no error status is returned. I will file a bug.

Anonymous
Sat 25 Aug 2007 02:01:34 AM UTC, original submission:

Please consider providing an option to govern the exit status passed by xargs from the subprocessses which it launches.

Alternative modes to the current behaviour might include returning the maximum exit status, the minimum, or the bitwise OR.

Anonymous

 

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    Mon 24 Mar 2008 12:05:11 AM UTCjayDependencies-=>Depends on bugs #22708

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