From ef44f196011ee5daf9f1bc3734b91b83dee18ff5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Behrens Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 18:42:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] drop `-r` flag from `xargs` on OS X OS X's `xargs` does not support the `-r` flag (which means "do not execute the command even once if there are no arguments"), but behaves by default as if it was specified. You can verify this yourself with this test: $ touch zero-length-file $ xargs echo