On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > I use a little bash code over and over again. > Its a while loop. > > locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do > ls -l $line; > done > > It has many uses and it doesnt have a limit like xargs. > I found out about xargs but started having problems that it could not > solve so I came up with this!
You can do the same thing with xargs. Look at the -i option. It's also good practice to quote "$line" like so. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
