On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:55:44PM +0300, Sergey Sedov wrote: > Good day, > > It's impossible to use xargs with interactive program such as apt-get. > When I try to do following: > #cat del > foo > bar > #cat del | xargs apt-get remove
Or, more efficiently, # xargs apt-get remove < del > The apt-get program terminates, after question: > Do you want to conginue ? [Y/n] > I suppose, that apt-get receives the eof symbol from xargs and then > terminates. stdin for xargs is, in your example, the pipe from cat. Therefore apt-get can't get an interactive answer from you. > Is it a bug? No, it isn't. However, you couls always upgrade to findutils version 4.2.8 or later, where xargs has an --arg-file option which you can use like this: # xargs --arg-file=del apt-get remove This will allow xargs to invoke apt-get with stdin unchanged, so apt-get would work. Regards, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
