Package: findutils
Version: 4.1.20-6
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/xargs
Hi,
sometimes the command I want to run with xargs needs an stdin or even
a tty but xargs doesn't have an option to set stdin for the called
command.
E.g:
grep-dctrl -F Status "install ok installed" -s Package -n \
/var/lib/dpkg/status | xargs sudo apt-get install --reinstall
fails when apt-get needs any interaction. One also can't use
"</dev/tty" as xargs would then read the options from there.
It would be nice to have something like
xargs --stdin=/dev/tty cmd
that would use the given device as stdin for every invokation.
MfG
Goswin
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