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Re: xargs gives grep/gawk too much
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:21:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>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.
...but I can't duplicate this with the latest snapshot...
cgf
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