That's precisely what xargs does. For example, ... | xargs commandname will run commandname arg1 arg2 arg3 ...
It'll run commandname program with as many arguments as safely possible without exceeding your system's argument limit. If xargs is fed more lines than your system allows arguments, then it will call commandname more than once.
If you want to limit the number of arugments a program is fed -- one argument per call, for example, use the -n option.
Hi friends
my C code is
int main()
{
system("cp <source> <destination>");
}
my question is
how to set variables for <source> and <destination>
how can we pass it to system() call.
can you suggest me
thankyou
kingskar (6 Replies)
Hi,
Ho do I differentiate system call from library call?
for example if I am using chmod , how do I find out if it is a system call or library call?
Thanks
Muru (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a problem with package and name space.
require "/Mehran/DSGateEngineLib/general.pl";
use strict;
sub System_Status_Main_Service_Status_Intrusion_Prevention
{
my %idpstatus;
my @result;
&General_ReadHash("/var/dsg/idp/settings",\%idpstatus);
#print... (4 Replies)
Hello, I was wondering if it were possible to call arguments passed to a script using a variable.
For example:
sh script.sh yes no good bad
x=$#
while
do
echo (last argument, then second last etc until first argument)
let x=($x-1)
done
should print out
bad
good
no (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to understand the arguments from this system call, can someone help me figure it out?
write(1, "/home/nick/11sp/fred\n", 27/home/nick/11sp/fred) = 27
for argument 1, i know it is a file descriptor which specifies standard output. Argument 2, i believe is "what is to be... (4 Replies)
I need to call a function within a code with $database and $ service as the arguments How do I proceed ? and how would a function be defined and these two arguments would be used inside the function?
calc_pref_avail $database $service
Best regards,
Vishal (7 Replies)
Dear All,
I want to know how can i call oracle function from shell script code . My oracle function have around 5 input parameters and one return value.
for name in *.csv;
do
echo "connecting to DB and start processing '$name' file at "
echo "csv file name=$x"
sqlplus -s scoot/tiger <!... (2 Replies)
I have a script that uses 2 arguments. I want to call the function part within this script using these same arguments. Below is what I came up with below script so far, any guidance would be helpful. Thank you!
cat backup.sh
#!/bin/bash
function usage {
echo "USAGE: $(basename $0)... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mbak
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kill
KILL(1) Linux Programmer's Manual KILL(1)NAME
kill - terminate a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid ...
kill -l [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
The command kill sends the specified signal to the specified process or process group. If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent.
The TERM signal will kill processes which do not catch this signal. For other processes, it may be necessary to use the KILL (9) signal,
since this signal cannot be caught.
Most modern shells have a builtin kill function, with a usage rather similar to that of the command described here. The `-a' and `-p'
options, and the possibility to specify pids by command name is a local extension.
OPTIONS
pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should signal. Each pid can be one of five things:
n where n is larger than 0. The process with pid n will be signaled.
0 All processes in the current process group are signaled.
-1 All processes with pid larger than 1 will be signaled.
-n where n is larger than 1. All processes in process group n are signaled. When an argument of the form `-n' is given, and it
is meant to denote a process group, either the signal must be specified first, or the argument must be preceded by a `--'
option, otherwise it will be taken as the signal to send.
commandname
All processes invoked using that name will be signaled.
-s signal
Specify the signal to send. The signal may be given as a signal name or number.
-l Print a list of signal names. These are found in /usr/include/linux/signal.h
-a Do not restrict the commandname-to-pid conversion to processes with the same uid as the present process.
-p Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals.
SEE ALSO bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(7)AUTHOR
Taken from BSD 4.4. The ability to translate process names to process ids was added by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>.
Linux Utilities 14 October 1994 KILL(1)