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Re: specify a multiple of m arguments in xargs
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Peng Yu |
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Re: specify a multiple of m arguments in xargs |
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Fri, 6 Mar 2020 22:22:45 -0600 |
Instead of manually specify -n that is a multiple of m which could
overflow, maybe xargs should have an additional argument to allow -n
be the maximum allowable multiple of m?
> $ seq 1000000 | xargs -n $(( 5 * 2000 )) printf '%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n'
> /tmp/1.txt
> $ < /tmp/1.txt awk -e '!($1 && $2 && $3 && $4 && $5)' | wc -l
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Regards,
Peng