pipes connect output of one command to input of another.
xargs is used to build commands. so if a command needs argument passed instead of input on stdin you use xargs... the default command is echo (vbe's example). it breaks spaces and newlines and i avoid it for this reason when working with files.
Hi,
On AIX 5200-07-00 I have a find command as following to delete files from a certain location that are more than 7 days old. I am being told that I cannot use -exec option to delete files from these directories.
Having said that I am more curious to know how this can be done.
an sample... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
Am piping a list of files to "xargs rm -v".
The files may have spaces in their names.
Please advise how do i deal with it... :confused:
Thanks. (3 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)
I have an overnight script which runs across a large directory to repair permissions and ownership. I also have this command output the list of files affected so that cron can email these as a log file. Previously I had the command in the form:
find /path/to/files -not -user myname -print -exec... (4 Replies)
I have read several docs on these on the web and looked at examples. I can't figure out the difference. In some cases you use one or the other or you combine them.
can someone help me understand this? (1 Reply)
xargs work great when a command gives multiple line output which can be input to another. In my case it is not working coz the second command uses two words in it.
$ scr.sh
gives output like
193740
638102
375449
..
..
another command takes these number as inputs. it works great... (1 Reply)
Hello, I need some help with xargs
$ ls
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
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 dddit's possible to have output like this with... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need to know how i can ignore Pipe '|' if Pipe is coming as a column in Pipe delimited file
for eg:
file 1:
xx|yy|"xyz|zzz"|zzz|12...
using below awk command
awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS="|" } print $3
i would get xyz
But i want as :
xyz|zzz to consider as whole column... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: rohit_shinez
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merge
MERGE(1) General Commands Manual MERGE(1)NAME
merge - three-way file merge
SYNOPSIS
merge [ options ] file1 file2 file3
DESCRIPTION
merge incorporates all changes that lead from file2 to file3 into file1. The result ordinarily goes into file1. merge is useful for com-
bining separate changes to an original. Suppose file2 is the original, and both file1 and file3 are modifications of file2. Then merge
combines both changes.
A conflict occurs if both file1 and file3 have changes in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, merge normally outputs a
warning and brackets the conflict with <<<<<<< and >>>>>>> lines. A typical conflict will look like this:
<<<<<<< file A
lines in file A
=======
lines in file B
>>>>>>> file B
If there are conflicts, the user should edit the result and delete one of the alternatives.
OPTIONS -A Output conflicts using the -A style of diff3(1), if supported by diff3. This merges all changes leading from file2 to file3 into
file1, and generates the most verbose output.
-E, -e These options specify conflict styles that generate less information than -A. See diff3(1) for details. The default is -E. With
-e, merge does not warn about conflicts.
-L label
This option may be given up to three times, and specifies labels to be used in place of the corresponding file names in conflict
reports. That is, merge -L x -L y -L z a b c generates output that looks like it came from files x, y and z instead of from files
a, b and c.
-p Send results to standard output instead of overwriting file1.
-q Quiet; do not warn about conflicts. -V Print 's version number.
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 for no conflicts, 1 for some conflicts, 2 for trouble.
IDENTIFICATION
Author: Walter F. Tichy.
Manual Page Revision: 5.7; Release Date: 1995/06/01.
Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 Walter F. Tichy.
Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Paul Eggert.
SEE ALSO diff3(1), diff(1), rcsmerge(1), co(1).
BUGS
It normally does not make sense to merge binary files as if they were text, but merge tries to do it anyway.
GNU 1995/06/01 MERGE(1)