Re [Gllug] rm -R not working on Fedora

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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Russell Howe uttered the following:
> Also, -r is a useful flag to xargs, although I don't know if it's a GNUism  or
> not - it means xargs will only execute said program if there is some
> input to pass it as parameters.

It appears to be a GNU extension; I'd have thought it to be essential to
use xargs at all, but no, POSIX still doesn't mention it. Bah.

> Some programs behave quite a bit differently when run without arguments!

`cat', for instance. :)

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