Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:27:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Pyeron To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: xargs and upstream bug? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes just checking to see if is just a cygwin issue or is up stream. http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=14587 from man xargs: --max-lines[=max-lines], -L[max-lines] Use at most max-lines nonblank input lines per command line; max-lines defaults to 1 if omitted. Trailing blanks cause an input line to be logically continued on the next input line. Implies -x. [jpyeron@mrlaptop rpms.pdinc.us]$ find | perl -ne 'm/(.+)\/.+\.rpm$/ and print $1, "\n";' | sort -u | xargs -L echo xargs: invalid number for -l option Usage: xargs [-0prtx] [-e[eof-str]] [-i[replace-str]] [-l[max-lines]] [-n max-args] [-s max-chars] [-P max-procs] [--null] [--eof[=eof-str]] [--replace[=replace-str]] [--max-lines[=max-lines]] [--interactive] [--max-chars=max-chars] [--verbose] [--exit] [--max-procs=max-procs] [--max-args=max-args] [--no-run-if-empty] [--arg-file=file] [--version] [--help] [command [initial-arguments]] Report bugs to . [jpyeron@mrlaptop rpms.pdinc.us]$ find | perl -ne 'm/(.+)\/.+\.rpm$/ and print $1, "\n";' | sort -u | xargs -l echo ./SRPMS ./foo bar ./i386 [jpyeron@mrlaptop rpms.pdinc.us]$ find | perl -ne 'm/(.+)\/.+\.rpm$/ and print $1, "\n";' | sort -u | xargs -L1 echo ./SRPMS ./foo bar ./i386 [jpyeron@mrlaptop rpms.pdinc.us]$ -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Partner & Sr. Manager 7 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 921-0381 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/