On Thursday, Mar 31, 2005, at 16:13 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:
$ echo -e 'a b\nc d\ne f\n' | xargs | tr ' ' ',' a,b,c,d,e,f
Cool. I didn't even realize xargs could be use without a command. So by default it echos/prints the arguments. BTW, we can shave off two more characters:
$ echo -e 'a b\nc d\ne f\n' | xargs | tr ' ' , a,b,c,d,e,f
What would be really nice is something like this:
$ echo -e 'a b\nc d\ne f\n' | xargs --ofs=, a,b,c,d,e,f
but I don't see anything in the man page of xargs that enables that.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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