On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Matthew Story <matthewst...@gmail.com>wrote:
> After reading the man-page, and browsing around the internet for a minute, > I was just wondering if there is an option in (any) xargs to short-circuit > on first failure of [utility [arguments]]. > > e.g. > > $ jot - 1 10 | xargs -e -n1 sh -c 'echo "$&"; exit 1' worker || echo $? # cp error on my part, should not read echo exit 1, just exit 1 > 1 > 1 > > such that any non-0 exit code in a child process would cause xargs to stop > processing. seems like this would be a nice feature to have. > apologies for the copy-paste error. -- regards, matt _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
