2 posts tagged with "xargs"

If you've used Subversion for any significant length of time, then you've probably run into the following message (or one just like it), near the end of a svn diff command.

\ No newline at end of file

Of course, you would have realised that this is because your editor has added a newline character to the end of the file in question, where the original had no such newline character.

Ok, I screwed up!! I was playing with an xargs command in order to process, then delete, some files. Since I was still "developing" the command, I was simply echo'ing the commands rather than running them... here's what I ran...

ls -1 | xargs -I{} bash -c 'echo cat {} /usr/local/bin/catchmail.sh ; rm {}'