Re: [DNG] xargs guide

2015-08-01 Thread Joel Roth
Steve Litt wrote:
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm

Funny, that I used xargs so many years without ever looking
at the man page. Thanks for publishing these examples!

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Re: [DNG] xargs guide

2015-08-01 Thread John Crisp
On 30/07/15 03:34, Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout
 to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for
 shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for
 xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines:
 
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm
 
 Hope you like it.
 

Class. Thanks for the education Steve.

Please sir, can I have some more ?

B. Rgds
John




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[DNG] xargs guide

2015-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all,

xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout
to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for
shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for
xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm

Hope you like it.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
July 2015 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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