[Linux-disciples] xargs questions

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:18:29AM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I'm not sure what it's doing in the tail command above, but the point of
> xargs is *not* to create commands that fit on the command line--the point
> is to take STDIN and convert it to arguments to a command.  It's
> essential glue.

If the command line could be arbitrarily long, why wouldn't
we just use

command1 `command2GeneratingInsanelyLongOutput`

?

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