[BusyBox] xargs problems!

robotti at metconnect.com robotti at metconnect.com
Sat Sep 23 21:34:14 UTC 2000


With the bb xargs you have to put "" around 
the command if you use options.

cat file | xargs echo -n

xargs: invalid option -- n

cat file | xargs "echo -n"

The bb xargs can't handle a file that contains 
one of these () <> | & *.

The test_file has this in it.

line_1
line_2

cat test_file | xargs -t

The bb xargs outputs this.

echo  line_1  line_2    line_1 line_2 

The gnu xargs outputs this.

/bin/echo line_1 line_2   
line_1 line_2 






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