Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?

Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by aaronem on Thursday January 02, 2014 @04:54PM (#7002586)

Well, how about that! It could be that I formed my opinion regarding xargs before it got that smart, or it could be the old Red Hat boxes on which I mostly learned my craft didn't bother compiling in that capability. Either way, I'm glad to know about it now, and thank you very kindly for pointing it out to me!

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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by falsedan on Thursday January 02, 2014 @07:31PM (#7003475)

breaking up the input into multiple executions is feature #1 for xargs and has been present since PWB UNIX in 1977

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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by aaronem on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:50PM (#7004042)

Then perhaps I'm thinking of "rm -f `find ...`". In any case, thanks for pointing it out; I learned something new today.

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