On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jilles Tjoelker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Yes indeed it does ... should have scoured further, thanks! > > -- > Jilles Tjoelker > -- regards, matt _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
