Hi, xargs by default does not put a multiple of m arguments (m is an integer greater than 1) to the command line. But is there a way that I can make sure only a multiple of m arguments are put the command line.
For example, for something like the following command, I'd like to make sure everytime there are 5 m arguments given to printf. But I don't think xargs can guarantee so by default in the output of the example. $ seq 1000000 | xargs printf '%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n' > /tmp/1.txt $ < /tmp/1.txt awk -v FS='\t' -e '!($1 && $2 && $3 && $4 && $5)' | wc -l 105 -- Regards, Peng
