Some more work on the xargs awk script. Here's another tomsrtbt friendly tarball for you to d/l: http://freeshell.org/~doug/iopener/files/xargs.tar.gz The tarball is relative to the root directory, so this should work to install it: cd / gzip -cd /fl/xargs.tar.gz | tar xvf - This release has more bugfixes and a new feature, replace (-i). This time around, I've really taken the extra time to make sure this version of xargs is stable and bug free. A good deal of comparsions with Gnu xargs were made, and this version produces similar output, so it should perform well for day-to-day xargs work. This should be the last version of the script that I'm going to make, barring any really stupid bugs. Awk is a funny little language. When I started learning Perl, I oftened wondered about some of the syntax and why some design decisions were made. Working with awk, I can see some of Perl's roots and why they chose to do some things differently than awk. Awk caught me by surprise more than once with it's interesting "looks like a number, but it's really a string" feature. Perl has the same thing, but awk seems to guess "wrong" more. Hehe, great fun anyway. As usual, use this as you will. Douglas Bollinger Mt. Holly Springs, PA My other computer runs Linux.
