Re: xargs gives grep/gawk too much

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:21:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Karr, David wrote: >>If the point of this note is to get your pipeline to work, would it help >>if you added something like "-n 30" to the xargs command? This should >>execute one instanc

Re: xargs gives grep/gawk too much

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Karr, David wrote: >If the point of this note is to get your pipeline to work, would it help >if you added something like "-n 30" to the xargs command? This should >execute one instance of 'grep -l -e "error '1234567890'"' for every 30 >lines of output fro

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Re: printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?

Tom Rodman wrote: On Wed 12/6/06 14:34 EST Larry Hall wrote: This is a change (or bug) in 'file', not Cygwin. I get the same thing as you do with Cygwin's version on FC4. If you think there is an issue here, you should take it upstream. Per, the upstream maintainer of 'file', it is a bug tha

RE: xargs gives grep/gawk too much

If the point of this note is to get your pipeline to work, would it help if you added something like "-n 30" to the xargs command? This should execute one instance of 'grep -l -e "error '1234567890'"' for every 30 lines of output from the previous pipe entry. $ echo path/* | \

Re: printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?

On Wed 12/6/06 14:34 EST Larry Hall wrote: > This is a change (or bug) in 'file', not Cygwin. I get the same thing as you > do with Cygwin's version on FC4. If you think there is an issue here, you > should take it upstream. Per, the upstream maintainer of 'file', it is a bug that can not be fix

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