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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Matthew Story <matthewstory@gmail.com>wrote:

> After reading the man-page, and browsing around the internet for a minute,
> I was just wondering if there is an option in (any) xargs to short-circuit
> on first failure of [utility [arguments]].
>
> e.g.
>
> $ jot - 1 10 | xargs -e -n1 sh -c 'echo "$&"; exit 1' worker || echo $? #
cp error on my part, should not read echo exit 1, just exit 1

> 1
> 1
>
> such that any non-0 exit code in a child process would cause xargs to stop
> processing.  seems like this would be a nice feature to have.
>

apologies for the copy-paste error.

-- 
regards,
matt