Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 03/26/2011 10:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > pkg_version -vIL= | awk '/^p5-/ { print $1 }' | xargs portmaster > > That's a good suggestion, but if you want to use that technique, better > would be: portmaster `pkg_version -vIL= | awk '/^p5-/ { print $1 }'` ...
Unless the number of ports involved is very large, either should produce exactly the same effect. Absent a -n or -s switch, xargs collects up to 5000 args or a ~250KB command line for each invocation of (in this case) portmaster. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"