From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 14:38:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F3D37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:38:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E1643E42 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 510041262352-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17jo2M-00053A-0A; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:38:10 +0200 Received: from leto (510041262352-0001@[217.230.30.4]) by fwd09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17jo2A-137q9gC; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:37:58 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:37:58 +0200 (=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=) From: 510041262352-0001@t-online.de (Friedemann Becker) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xargs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: zxmxy33@mailserv02.uni-tuebingen.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 510041262352-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Henning, Brian wrote: > can anyone see a problem with this command? i tried to it and all it > performs is a check some of the last element of the file my_input.txt. > > cat my_input.txt | xargs cksum eeeeerrrrrr...... . o O (?) ;) what is it supposed to do? envoke chksum with parameters listed in my_input.txt? if not, why do you use xargs? Friedemann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message