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Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs
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Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou |
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Re: An interesting thing: about the naming of xargs |
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Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:02:03 +0200 |
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> On 14 Mar 2023, at 5:11 PM, Nature <oreaking@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi:
> Learned from Wikipedia : xargs (short for "extended arguments") is a
> command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems.
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> Why isn't it called exargs, but xargs. Would love to know what was
> considered at the time.
The name of the Latin letter x is “ex.”
Regards,
Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou
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