Hi,
Intro:
I don't script a lot mainly because at work we're forced into the
windows 2003, AD and XP mould which means putting up with the 'quirky'
windows command shell (yes, quirky is a euphemism - I'll let you
decide
what for).
Prob:
I've used xargs in past to pass piped command output into a subsequent
command that doesn't normally accept parameters from the pipe (in
debian linux)
e.g. command1 | xargs command2 *output from command 1*
I wanted to set a variable to the output of a string of commands and
as
windows shell won't allow
set variable=`commands` I thought I'd use xargs as below.
/CODE/
>ping -n 1 whrcsdp05922 | awk "/TTL/ {print $3}" | awk -F: "{print
$1}" | xargs --verbose set pcip=
/ENDCODE/
The result is:
set pcip= 10.60.1.77
xargs: set: No such file or directory
ok, I've run the above output (set pcip= 10.60.1.77) on the command
line on its own and the variable is set.
I'll work another solution out somehow, if not with xargs, but I'd
kind
of like to understand what the problem is (actually understand not
just
go - oh it's that quirky windows command shell).
Thanks for any help and please excuse the long explanation.
Steve
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