$(fromdsn //DD:DSNS)
returns a multiline string as one arg. Actually it won't work, since $( )
does a fork into a different address space and the DD isn't there.
xargs is completely different, but works perfectly for when you want to
tokenize a stream into additional arguments for a command.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, at 7:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2022, at 10:47:36, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> > ...
> > //AWK EXEC PGM=COZBATCH
> > //DSNS DD *
> > "//'SYS1.MACLIB(ACB)'"
> > "//'SYS1.MACLIB(CHECK)'"
> > "//'SYS1.MACLIB(CLOSE)'"
> > "//'SYS1.MACLIB(DYNALLOC)'"
> > /*
> > //STDIN DD *
> > fromdsn //DD:DSNS |
> > xargs awk '/STR/ {print FILENAME ":" NR "\t" $0 }'
> > //
> >
> In utter ignorance of "fromdsn", I wonder. What can xargs do that
> can't be done equally we'll with command substitution, e.g.:
> //STDIN DD *
> awk '/STR/ {print FILENAME ":" NR "\t" $0 }' $(
> fromdsn //DD:DSNS )
>
> I've found xargs useful only with non-portable filenames, then:
> find ... -print0 | xargs -0 <some-command>
>
> Alas, z/OS supports neither "find ... -print0" nor "xargs -0"
>
> --
> gil
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