I've done some more work on the xargs awk script. Rather than posting it here again, he's a tomsrtbt friendly tarball for you to d/l: http://freeshell.org/~doug/iopener/files/xargs.tar.gz I've made the tarball relative to the root directory, so this should work to install it: cd / gzip -cd /fl/xargs.tar.gz | tar xvf - The tarball includes a man page as well as the xargs script itself. Bugfixes from the last version: fixed a typo- forgot a "=" sign, made -l default to 1, made -l cap of 20000, now ignores blank lines. Email me descriptions of the new bugs. This was an interesting project. A great way to learn the "ins and outs" of a common unix command. I thought I knew xargs before, but now I know much more. The usual caveats apply: be careful and help test the script a bit. I was thinking about adding the -i command, but honestly I can't think what would be a good use for this so I'm having trouble testing it. The -i command would be the last of the major commands not supported by this script. Do with it what you want. It should easily fit inside the current tomsrtbt if you want to rebuild and include it. Douglas Bollinger Mt. Holly Springs, PA My other computer runs Linux.
