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Re: xargs -i explanation not clear enough without examples
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: xargs -i explanation not clear enough without examples |
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Sun, 18 May 2003 05:53:30 +0800 |
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Jim> The xargs info documentation is in find.info,
Jim> buried in the Actions/Run Commands/Multiple Files section.
Jim> So you can get to it with this command:
Jim> $ info find a r m
Ah, I see it now, and, poof-allah, I now understand -i!
Not only that, here are some better examples:
Info> find bills -type f | xargs -iXX sort -o XX.sorted XX
add: or: $ find bills -type f | xargs -i sort -o {}.sorted {}
Info> The equivalent command using `find -exec' is:
Info> find bills -type f -exec sort -o '{}.sorted' '{}' ';'
use: $ find bills -type f -exec sort -o {}.sorted {} \;
Jim> There most certainly should be a top-level directory entry for xargs.
Jim> Thanks for your recent suggestions regarding xargs.
Jim> It would be better to send them to address@hidden
OK, I CC'd this message, and I hereby notify them to check recent
activity on bug-coreutils, and, as the xargs man page doesn't say
where to send bugs, can't blame me.
Jim> (as distinct from bug-fileutils) or at least to send a note
Jim> to that list with the URLs of the reports you've sent to this one.
Jim> However, I don't know if there is currently a maintainer for
Jim> the findutils package.
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