To the best of my knowledge, what you seek cannot be done (at least not with the xargs implementations with which I'm familiar, GNU may be another story). The -I and -L options deal with entire lines and pass them as a single argument. The least ugly, portable (-d isn't standardized, if that's of any importance) solution that I can come up with:
More or less what you had already come up with. Please post back if you find an elegant solution.
Regards,
Alister
Edit: Do not use the pipeline above. It behaves badly when the space is quoted.
Hi there,
I am trying to move around 3000 files from one directory to another. The mv command is complaining from too many arguments. I tried to use the xargs command but with no luck. Could some body provide help?
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I discovered that GNU's xargs has a -P option to allow its processes to run in parallel. Great! Is this a GNU thing, or is it supported by other platforms as well? (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to RCP the files from remote server to local server.
Also the RCP has to run in parallel. However using 'xargs' retrives 2 file names during each loop. How do we restrict to only one file name using xargs and loop till remaining files.
I use the below code for... (2 Replies)
hi
Could any one please tell me the option using which we can run multiple commands using xargs
I have list of files, I want to run dos2unix and chmod at one shot on them
I tried google n searched man pages but couldnt really find the solution , please help
right now im doing this
ls... (4 Replies)
Dear all ,
any suggest on xargs to combine from (1.txt and 2.txt) to output.txt ?
thanks a lot.
1.txt
0123 BUM-5M BUM-5M 93490481 63839
0124 BUM-5M BUM-5M 112112 ... (3 Replies)
Using the bash shell I'm trying to either create a command for the command line or a script that will show netstat info for a given process name. Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:$ ps aux |grep catalina |grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'
5132
$ netstat -nlp |grep 5132
(Not all processes... (11 Replies)
Hello, I need some help with xargs
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aaa bbb ccc ddd$ ls | xargs -I{} ls -la {}
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 aaa
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 bbb
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 ccc
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Hi,
can anyone tell me in detail ?
what the following do in detail ?
I am trying to get a largest number in a list
Thanks
Tao
LARGEST=$(echo $* | xargs -n1 | sort -nr | tail -1) (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
fmt
FMT(1) BSD General Commands Manual FMT(1)NAME
fmt -- simple text formatter
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-Cr] [goal [maximum]] [name ...]
fmt [-Cr] [-g goal] [-m maximum] [name ...]
DESCRIPTION
fmt is a simple text formatter which reads the concatenation of input files (or standard input if none are given) and produces on standard
output a version of its input with lines as close to the goal length as possible without exceeding the maximum. The goal length defaults to
65 and the maximum to 75. The spacing at the beginning of the input lines is preserved in the output, as are blank lines and interword spac-
ing. In non raw mode, lines that look like mail headers or begin with a period are not formatted.
-C instructs fmt to center the text.
-g goal New way to set the goal length.
-m maximum New way to set the maximum length.
-r Raw mode; formats all lines and does not make exceptions for lines that start with a period or look like mail headers.
fmt is meant to format mail messages prior to sending, but may also be useful for other simple tasks. For instance, within visual mode of
the ex(1) editor (e.g., vi(1)) the command
!}fmt
will reformat a paragraph, evening the lines.
SEE ALSO mail(1), nroff(1)HISTORY
The fmt command appeared in 3BSD.
BUGS
The program was designed to be simple and fast - for more complex operations, the standard text processors are likely to be more appropriate.
BSD May 29, 2007 BSD