topic Re: xargs in Operating System - HP-UX

xargs

Mohammed Quadri — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:23:32 GMT

I have list of file paths used in files(jhtml)
but since not properly typed are giving errors at the web servers. I tried the following
find . -type f|xargs grep -ni file
but din't work is there any easy way to do it?
Thanks for the help

Re: xargs

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:35:36 GMT

What are you trying to do? I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish with the above command.

Re: xargs

Geoff Wild — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:43:11 GMT

Try:

find . -type f|xargs grep -ni {};

Or something like that...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: xargs

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:49:13 GMT

Hi,

Try some of the suggestions over here,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1103240818382+28353475&threadId=22169

Hope this helps.

regds

Re: xargs

T G Manikandan — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:23:53 GMT

If you are trying to search a specified string in a set of dir,

#find . -exec grep -il "" {} \;