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Re: What is xargs?


On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote:
I am new to cygwin/X.

Using the above setup at the workplace..
I need to know about the xargs command. What does it
do ?

As Gary said, the "man" (short for "manual") command is your friend.

As is google. The first hit is instructive.

It certainly is: it provides (as a wikipedia article) an example of poorly written technical material.


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