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GNU `xargs -i` is deprecated in favor of `-I{}`

Problematic code:

# Implicit replacement string
xargs -i ls {}

# Explicit replacement string
xargs -imyfilename ls myfilename

Correct code:

xargs -I {} ls {}

xargs -I filename ls filename

Rationale:

xargs -i is a GNU specific option. It has been deprecated in favor of the POSIX standard option -I.

Note that -i will implicitly use {} as a token if nothing is specified, while -I requires it to be explicit.

Exceptions:

None.

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