On 09:33 18 Dec 2003, David Lupo <david.lupo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:33:04AM -0500, Jake McHenry wrote: | > grep 'alsdjf' * | cut -f 1 -d : | > | > Returns all the filenames:what I'm searching for, growing rapidly, | > right now the line count is around 200. What I want to do with this | > output is input it into a script I made, which contains sa-learn | > --args.. $*, where $* is the output from grep and cut. | > | > I need the output from grep and cut to be all on the same line, not | > the 200+ as it currently is. | > | > So, is there a way to have the output from grep and cut to be all on | > one big line seperated by spaces? | | echo `grep 'alsdjf' * | cut -f 1 -d :` | | If your script wants the names as arguments, you can replace "echo" with | the name of the script. True, but for larger datasets this will easily blow the command line argument character count limit. Most commands in UNIX _prefer_ input data to be lots of input lines. If his scripts says: for arg do do-stuff-with-$arg done it easily transmutes into: while read arg do do-stuff-with-$arg done to read lines from stdin. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There's a difference between skepticism and nihilism. - Doug Jones <random@xxxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
