Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:50:31 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu> To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> Cc: " (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xargs Message-ID: <20020827175031.F3712@selvirjin.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894D04@exchange.Navitaire.com>; from brian.henning@navitaire.com on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:15:57PM -0500 References: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894D04@exchange.Navitaire.com>
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:15:57PM -0500, 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 > Does "xargs cksum <my_input.txt" work? Is the file what you expect it to be? Is it delimited with newlines, or something else? (If my_input.txt was generated by "find ... -print0", then it's "something else" and you should read the find and xargs man pages.) What version of FreeBSD are you running? If you use "xargs echo" instead, does it tell you anything useful? -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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