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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:37:58 +0200 (=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=)
From:      510041262352-0001@t-online.de (Friedemann Becker)
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xargs
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.44.0208272335090.284-100000@leto>
In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894D04@exchange.Navitaire.com>

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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Henning, Brian wrote:

> can anyone see a problem with this command? i tried to it and all it
> performs is a check some of the last element of the file my_input.txt.
>
> cat my_input.txt | xargs cksum

eeeeerrrrrr...... . o O (?) ;)

what is it supposed to do?

envoke chksum with parameters listed in my_input.txt?

if not, why do you use xargs?

Friedemann




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