Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 05:13:48 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scripting problems Message-ID: <20020907021348.GB24498@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894DF2@exchange.Navitaire.com> References: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894DF2@exchange.Navitaire.com>
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"Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> wrote:
>
> i have this shell script that i am having problems with. when i run
> it (cat output.txt | xargs sh mycheck_sum.sh) i get an error that
> cannot open file. but all the files are there. i am not sure what
> the problem is with this script. can someone take a quick look and
> tell me if they see anything?
> #! /bin/sh -x
> # cat output.txt | xargs sh mycheck_sum.sh
>
> INPUT=$1
> SRC=`echo ${INPUT} | awk -F: '{ print $1 }'`
> DST=`echo ${INPUT} | awk -F: '{ print $2 }'`
xargs will not pass just one argument at a time to your script:
$ cat > lala
one
two
three
$ xargs echo < lala
one two three
$
You will need to handle all the command line arguments that xargs
passes to your script with something like:
#!/bin/sh
for arg in "$@" ;do
# handle $arg
done
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