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Re: [PATCH] This change adds a sleep between invocations of cmd.
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Re: [PATCH] This change adds a sleep between invocations of cmd. |
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Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:33:02 +0000 |
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:13:59PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> But why would you not just use
>
> .... | xargs sh -c 'sleep 60 && exec command ... "$@"' command
>
> ?
Gave that a go today on a vanilla xargs and it doesn't seem to work:
$ perl -e 'for(my $a=0;$a<100;$a++){print $a,"\n";}' | xargs -l2 sh -c
'sleep 1 &&exec /bin/echo "$@"'
1
3
5
^C
For whatever reason the shell seems to throw the first argument away.
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Ed http://www.s5h.net/
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