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-rw-r--r--findutils/xargs.c2
-rwxr-xr-xtestsuite/xargs.tests11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/findutils/xargs.c b/findutils/xargs.c
index 4fb306bb8..ff04bfe7c 100644
--- a/findutils/xargs.c
+++ b/findutils/xargs.c
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ static char* FAST_FUNC process_stdin(int n_max_chars, int n_max_arg, char *buf)
}
}
if (state == SPACE) { /* word's delimiter or EOF detected */
+ state = NORM;
if (q) {
bb_error_msg_and_die("unmatched %s quote",
q == '\'' ? "single" : "double");
@@ -335,7 +336,6 @@ static char* FAST_FUNC process_stdin(int n_max_chars, int n_max_arg, char *buf)
if (n_max_arg == 0) {
goto ret;
}
- state = NORM;
}
if (p == buf) {
goto ret;
diff --git a/testsuite/xargs.tests b/testsuite/xargs.tests
index 855b33bc2..159f1ff69 100755
--- a/testsuite/xargs.tests
+++ b/testsuite/xargs.tests
@@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ testing "xargs argument line too long" \
"seq 10000 99999 | sed -e 's/^/\"/' -e 's/$/\"/' | xargs echo | grep -o 99999; echo \$?" \
"99999\n0\n" \
"" ""
+
+testing "xargs -n1" \
+ "xargs -n1 echo" \
+ "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n" \
+ "" "1 2 3 4 5\n"
+
+testing "xargs -n2" \
+ "xargs -n2 echo" \
+ "1 2\n3 4\n5\n" \
+ "" "1 2 3 4 5\n"
+
SKIP=
exit $FAILCOUNT