On 27/02/2010 11:10, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > Hi, > for compiling a list of ports inside a emulated FreeBSD-current environment > I would need to use portmaster as: > > cat ./myports.txt | xargs portmaster -r -R -G -g -d -m "WITHOUT_GSSAPI=YES" > (myports.txt contains a list of to be installed/updated ports)
Useless use of cat. xargs < ./myports.txt portmaster ... > Unfortunately this doesn't work (specifying -m "BATCH=yes" doesn't help > too). xargs(1) holds the solution, this one will work: xargs -o < ./myports.txt portmaster ... -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
