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# 8  
Old 06-08-2007
An example :
Code:
cat patterns_file | xargs -i{} awk -v value="{}" '$0 ~ value' infile

Jean-Pierre.
# 9  
Old 06-08-2007
thank u guys.. trying to make it work.. i have some gud ideas now
# 10  
Old 06-08-2007
also, u coudln't do this.. if u wanted to use that as multiple argument.. rite?

awk '{print $3}' filename | xargs -i{} for host in {} do ; for i in 1 2 do ; do scp $i@{}

will above work?
# 11  
Old 06-08-2007
echo testrich testrich2 | for i in $* ; do echo $i ; done # this does not work
# 12  
Old 06-09-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by hankooknara
also, u coudln't do this.. if u wanted to use that as multiple argument.. rite?

awk '{print $3}' filename | xargs -i{} for host in {} do ; for i in 1 2 do ; do scp $i@{}

will above work?
doesn't work.
Code:
awk '{print $3}' filename | 
while read h
do
   for i in 1 2
   do
      scp $i$h
   done 
done

or if you really want to use xargs (and for loop):
Code:
awk '{ for (i=1; i<=2; i++) print i "@" $3}' filename | xargs scp

Jean-Pierre.
# 13  
Old 06-09-2007
jean-peire, thanks, this works like a charm

file * | grep perl | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | while read yahoo ; do mv $yahoo /script/data ; done
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