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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers xargs vs. pipe Post 302635169 by vbe on Friday 4th of May 2012 10:34:07 AM
Old 05-04-2012
You would use xargs when you get an errror message like "too many arguments", or when you want on the same line the output of more than one command, look :
Code:
ant:/home/vbe $ date pwd 
date: bad conversion
ant:/home/vbe $ date;pwd
Fri May  4 16:32:42 METDST 2012
/home/vbe
ant:/home/vbe $ (date;pwd)|xargs
Fri May 4 16:33:04 METDST 2012 /home/vbe
ant:/home/vbe $

 

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