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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S Woan)
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Subject: Easy(?) problem for shell script writers
Summary: xargs?
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Date: 10 May 91 15:31:35 GMT
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In article <1991May9.151138.21246@uvm.edu> moore@emily.uvm.edu (Bryan Moore) writes:
>I want to do a 'ps | fgrep $1' where $1 is each of the above
>strings, but obviously the above is incorrect. 

ps | awk whatever | xargs -t -i fgrep {}

might do it...



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