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Re: xargs gives grep/gawk too much
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.
cgf
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