Example of xargs' -x option in action

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Published on 2010-06-12T01:22:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/12 1:33 UTC
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GNU xargs has option '-x'. The man page says:

-x Exit if the size (see the -s option) is exceeded.

But xargs seems to not care if -x is set or not. I have been unable to make an example in which the -x has any effect at all.

Please provide two examples in which the only difference is an added -x and that produce different output.

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