Re: [DNG] xargs guide

2015-08-01 Thread Joel Roth
Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm Funny, that I used xargs so many years without ever looking at the man page. Thanks for publishing these examples! -- Joel Roth ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] xargs guide

2015-08-01 Thread John Crisp
On 30/07/15 03:34, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for xargs that shows how to get

[DNG] xargs guide

2015-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines: