Look! An xargs!!

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Mon Sep 4 15:47:04 AEST 1989


In article <16816 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> deboor at buddy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Adam R de Boor) writes:
-Shell scripts 201 (Graduate level :)
-While the lecturer in SS101 was wrong in his solution of the problem (or
-perhaps misunderstood the problem itself), his contention that xargs can
-be solved with a rudimentary shell script is correct, q.e.d. (or some
-similar abbreviation, hee hee)

The first solution was actually better, because it didn't bump into
the exec args limit that is the main reason for xargs's existence.



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