Re: [Fwd: Mail lives forever (Re: Bill Joy kicks around XML for fun :-)]

From: Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 13:40:02 PST


Robert Harley wrote:
>
> Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net) wrote:
> >command line grep balks at the large number of separate files.

This is the second message that mis-attributes this to me... Watch the
editing please!

I've used xargs just about every day since playing with Version 7 Unix
on the Perkin Elmer in 1985 ;-). Of course Linux supports a massive
command line that limits the need.

> And on the seventh day He created xargs (contrary to popular belief),
> and some time later O'Reilly put an article about it in their Power
> Tools section:
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/UnixPower
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/09_21.html
>
> Rob
> .-. Robert.Harley@polytechnique.org .-.
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