[BusyBox] Problems with xargs !!!

Steven Scholz steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de
Mon Mar 31 07:42:03 UTC 2003


Thomas Eckert schrieb:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Steven Scholz wrote:
> 
> 
>>~ # find . -name rc.sh | xargs egrep -n "ipcal"
>>xargs: invalid option -- n
> 
> 
> try:
>  ~ # find . -name rc.sh | xargs -- egrep -n "ipcal"

Thanks! That works!

> "--" denotes the end of parameters for xargs.

Is that a busybox thing? Or is it some standard?

Thanks a million,

Steven




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