What is the correct format for a single command that would combine portions of 2 different lines in the command history? I'm using a C shell. Here's a simplified command history to clarify:
4 rm file1
5 ls -ld file2 file3 file4
6 cat file 5
With the above history, what would be the... (5 Replies)
Dear Experts
I am trying to find if it is possible to combine unix commands in awk program. For example if it is possible embed rm or ls or any unix command inside the awk program and while it is reading the file besides printing be able to do some unix commands. I am thinking may be just print... (2 Replies)
I would like to change the lines:
originalline1
originalline2
to:
originalline1new
originalline1newline
originalline2new
originalline2newline
To do this, id like to combine the commands:
sed 's/^/&new/g' file > newfile1
and
sed '/^/ a\\
newline\\
\\ (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I am trying to list and count all the files of a particular type in any given directory. I can use the commands separately but when I combine them they do not give an output.
The command for counting the files is ls -1 | wc -l and for listing all the file of particular type say... (2 Replies)
Is there anyway to achieve "find /home -name "*.bashrc" 2>/dev/null" and "PS1="\n>"" in the same command? I just wanna add a line to the previous command to change the PS1 variable to ">". (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
I am looking to optimze these 5 SSH lines to a single SSH to get my machine to not hang! lol!
cat hosts.lst | xargs -n1 -t -i echo 'home/util/timeout 6 0 ssh -q {} top -b > util/{}.top &' >> r_query_info
cat hosts.lst | xargs -n1 -t -i echo 'home/util/timeout 6 0 ssh -q {} uname -r... (5 Replies)
hey can anyone tell me how can i combine these two commands so that it is executed only once, but gives me both the results.
IDLE=`sar 30 6 | grep Average | awk '{print $1 $5}' `
sar 30 120 | awk '{print $1" "$5}' >> mailx -m -s "$MSG" xyz@abc.com. (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory with some XML files in it. I can use wildcards to get the list of XMLs I want
say I have following XMLs in same dir
Employee1.xml
Employee2.xml
Employee3.xml
and
Salary1.xml
Salary2.xml
Salary3.xml
apart from other .txt .dat files etc
I want to write a unix... (7 Replies)
Hello all,
I need to send an attachment and text in the body, both in the same Email.
Below are two cammand that send the required data in separate Emails. I need to combine them so that I get just 1 Email containing the attachment & text in the body.
uuencode ${filename} "${file_}" |... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Junaid Subhani
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xargs
XARGS(1) General Commands Manual XARGS(1)NAME
xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
SYNOPSIS
xargs [ -t ][[ -x ] -n number ][ -s size ][ utility [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited arguments from the standard input and executes the specified utility
with them as arguments.
The utility and any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the
arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`` ' '') or double (``"'') quotes or backslashes (``''). Single
quotes escape all non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single quote. Double quotes escape all non-double
quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including newlines, may be escaped by a back-
slash.
The options are as follows:
-n number Set the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation of the utility. An invocation of utility will
use less than number standard input arguments if the number of bytes accumulated (see the s option) exceeds the specified size or
there are fewer than number arguments remaining for the last invocation of utility. The current default value for number is
5000.
-s size Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length provided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
the arguments passed to utility (including /dev/null terminators) will be less than or equal to this number. The current default
value for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
-t Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.
-x Force xargs to terminate immediately if a command line containing number arguments will not fit in the specified (or default)
command line length.
If no utility is specified, echo(1) is used.
Undefined behavior may occur if utility reads from the standard input.
The xargs utility exits immediately (without processing any further input) if a command line cannot be assembled, utility cannot be
invoked, an invocation of the utility is terminated by a signal or an invocation of the utility exits with a value of 255.
The xargs utility exits with a value of 0 if no error occurs. If utility cannot be invoked, xargs exits with a value of 127. If any other
error occurs, xargs exits with a value of 1.
SEE ALSO echo(1), find(1)STANDARDS
The xargs utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2("POSIX") compliant.
June 6, 1993 XARGS(1)