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From: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu>
To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
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Subject: Re: xargs
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In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894D04@exchange.Navitaire.com>; from brian.henning@navitaire.com on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:15:57PM -0500
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:15:57PM -0500, 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
> 

Does "xargs cksum <my_input.txt" work? Is the file what you expect it to
be? Is it delimited with newlines, or something else? (If my_input.txt
was generated by "find ... -print0", then it's "something else" and you
should read the find and xargs man pages.) What version of FreeBSD are
you running? If you use "xargs echo" instead, does it tell you anything
useful?

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