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Re: env :xargs no such file or directory
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: uclinux-dev at uclinux dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 00:04:29 -0700
- Subject: Re: env :xargs no such file or directory
- References: <Law14-OE51uTeC1oOJe0000e3e8@hotmail.com>
On Mon, 26 May 2003 10:37:50 -0700, Vikram Mehta wrote:
> If the code of given below script is run , I get an error env: xargs no
> such file or directory found This error comes form the last line of the
> code.
>
> f [ -f "$$ROMFSDIR/bin/busybox" ]; then \
> inode=`ls -i $$ROMFSDIR/bin/busybox | awk '{print $$1}'`; \ ls -i
> "$$ROMFSDIR/bin" | grep "^ *$$inode" | awk '{print $$2}' | \
> sed "s:^:$$ROMFSDIR/bin/:" | env -i xargs rm -f; \
> fi
>
> What I cannot understand is what is the phrase env -i xargs rm -f doing.
The -i option to env discards the environment. If $PATH isn't set, env
doesn't know where to look for xargs and xargs won't know where to find
rm. Try /bin/xargs instead. If you use /bin/rm, you probably won't need
'env -i'.
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