On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:57 +0200, eng.waleed wrote: > can any one learn me how I can use xargs with ln? > -- If you have a list you can skip xargs and try something like this: mylist=`/usr/bin/mycmd` for l in $mylist; do $ ln -s /my/source/location $l done If that does not work then you can create a link to 'location' called 'text' by doing something along the lines of: $ cat text | xargs ln -s /my/source/location This of course assumes that you are passing a single value to xargs...
