On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Karr, David wrote: >If the point of this note is to get your pipeline to work, would it help >if you added something like "-n 30" to the xargs command? This should >execute one instance of 'grep -l -e "error '1234567890'"' for every 30 >lines of output from the previous pipe entry. >> $ echo path/* | \ > tr ' ' '\n' | \ > grep -v -e '\*' | \ > xargs -r grep -l -e "error '1234567890'" | \ > rest_of_pipe I'm sure that the point of the note was to report a Cygwin bug. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/