On 2020-03-08 Peng Yu wrote:
> I don't think the `xargs -n 4` in the middle is robust. For example,
> when the input contains spaces, it won't work as expected. Is there a
> way to make it robust?
NUL as delimiter?
cu Andreas
I don't think the `xargs -n 4` in the middle is robust. For example,
when the input contains spaces, it won't work as expected. Is there a
way to make it robust?
$ printf '%s\n' {a..d} | xargs -n 4
a b c d
$ printf '%s\n' 'a b' 'c d' 'e f' 'g h' | xargs -n 4
a b c d
e f g h
On 3/8/20, James Y
You should be able to do this by chaining use of xargs :-
$ seq 1 208 | xargs -n 4 | xargs -d'\n' -n 5 sh -c 'set $@;
my-command $@' ignored
The use of -n in the second xargs invocation is not needed, it's just
there to show more clearly what is happening.
Instead of manually specify -n that is a multiple of m which could
overflow, maybe xargs should have an additional argument to allow -n
be the maximum allowable multiple of m?
> $ seq 100 | xargs -n $(( 5 * 2000 )) printf '%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n'
> /tmp/1.txt
> $ < /tmp/1.txt awk -e '!($1 &&
No. I have a program that expects m*n arguments instead of just m (n
is an interger). Using `xargs -n m` would make calling the program too
many times.
On 2/21/20, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 2020-02-20 20:46, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> xargs by default does not put a multiple of m arguments (m
On 2020-02-20 20:46, Peng Yu wrote:
> 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 my understanding: you have a program
