05-07-2008
Denn,
you are right.
1. ls -l | awk '{print $9'} = ls -1 (no need for extra code)
Jartan,
Did you try what Denn provided?
ls -1 | xargs pkginfo 2> /var/tmp/errorfile
If the above errorfile has the whole error line, then you can add the while loop to just get the data between "".
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