X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:33:39 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xargs gives grep/gawk too much Message-ID: <20061210063339.GB15846@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704169472@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> <0C260F619E428642BFA6380177C3ADF30472ADCC@exmsea005.us.wamu.net> <20061210062119.GA15846@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061210062119.GA15846@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:21:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Karr, David wrote: >>If the point of this note is to get your pipeline to work, would it help >>if you added something like "-n 30" to the xargs command? This should >>execute one instance of 'grep -l -e "error '1234567890'"' for every 30 >>lines of output from the previous pipe entry. >> >> $ echo path/* | \ >> tr ' ' '\n' | \ >> grep -v -e '\*' | \ >> xargs -r grep -l -e "error '1234567890'" | \ >> rest_of_pipe > >I'm sure that the point of the note was to report a Cygwin bug. ...but I can't duplicate this with the latest snapshot... cgf -- 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/