6 Jan
2011
6 Jan
'11
6:51 p.m.
2011/1/6 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
On Thursday 06 January 2011 10:53 AM, Raghu Prasad wrote:
cat pkgs_to_remove.txt | xargs apt-get remove
Xargs looks like a nice command. Thanks!
Very useful in running the same command over a list of lines in a text file.
Yes, though the "cat" there is superfluous:
xargs apt-get remove < pkgs_to_remove.txt
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Useless_use_of_cat
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