Re: XARGS

[Gawain Lynch <lists-gawain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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...