On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:34:49PM -0500, Matthew Story wrote: > After reading the man-page, and browsing around the internet for a minute, > I was just wondering if there is an option in (any) xargs to short-circuit > on first failure of [utility [arguments]].
> e.g. > $ jot - 1 10 | xargs -e -n1 sh -c 'echo "$*"; echo exit 1' worker || echo $? > 1 > 1 > such that any non-0 exit code in a child process would cause xargs to stop > processing. seems like this would be a nice feature to have. As per xargs(1), you can do this by having the command exit on a signal or with a value of 255. -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
