xargs: support -a FILE
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:42:05 +0000 (22:42 +0200)
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:05:40 +0000 (21:05 +0200)
commitf8ee849ecd42fa11da6c5f381ad83594840b3cca
tree9ba537ad3ea5aaa26395f5ab846a654ca096b3de
parentf41ffff2dce2c08d96a11a21a01437e6354e659e
xargs: support -a FILE

The GNU-specific option -a lets xargs read the arguments from a file
rather than from stdin.

This is particularly convenient when debugging in gdb interactively,
and it might be of more general use.

function                                             old     new   delta
xargs_main                                           788     823     +35
packed_usage                                       31683   31671     -12

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
findutils/xargs.c