promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))

[Tom Neff]

In article <13352 at s.ms.uky.edu> sean at ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>My goodness. It's a good thing Tom never read the SysVR3.2 man page
>for xargs(1).
>
>Because he wouldn't have found it. He wouldn't have found the executable
>either.

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+ uname -a
bfmny0 bfmny0 3.2 2.1 i386
+ ls -lF /usr/bin/xargs
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin         7362 Jun 26  1988 /usr/bin/xargs*
+ what /usr/bin/xargs
/usr/bin/xargs:
	xargs:xargs.c	2.3
	xindex	1.1
	/usr/bin/xargs.sl 1.1 3.2 06/24/88 30252 AT&T-SF

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XARGS(1)		(Base System)			XARGS(1)

NAME
	xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute command

SYNOPSIS
	xargs [flags] [ command [initial-arguments] ]

DESCRIPTION
	The xargs command combines the fixed initial-arguments with
	arguments read from standard input to execute the specified
	command one or more times.  The number of arguments read for
	each command invocation and the manner in which they are
	combined are determined by the flags specified.

	. . .

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Snort.

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