> On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote: > > I am new to cygwin/X. > > > > Using the above setup at the workplace.. > > I need to know about the xargs command. What does it > > do ?
As Gary said, the "man" (short for "manual") command is your friend. It's also important to note that not all commands whose name starts with "x" have anything to do with X the graphics system. In the case of "xargs", the "x" represents the operation that conceptually turns a vertical list of items into a horizontal list of command-line arguments. So if you have a file named "lines.txt" whose contents are as follows: line1 line2 line3 Then if you type this at the bash prompt: xargs mycommand <lines.txt The xargs program will turn around and run the following command on your behalf, as if you'd typed it instead: mycommand line1 line2 line3 -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
