>>>>> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> and could someone give me a perl one-liner that takes each Martin> such line fed into its STDIN, and for each line, calls an Martin> external shell script with the entire line as argument? why not just use xargs? find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l I think you can pass '-n 1' to xargs to cause it to execute the command a separate time for each argument. -- joe