On 12/7/05, you wrote:
> xargs -i (or xargs --replace) allow the substituted argument to be
> inside the call string.
Unfortunately, "-i" implies "-l1", i.e. only one line can be used as
an argument per call. Which was my original problem.
It also implies -x, i.e. to exit when the args do not fit on a line.
Maybe this is all theoretic (20k chars allowed), and you could
construct the full sequence of ops to carry out in advance, and pass
them as a single argument to XMLStarlet. Let's see...
Did some tests along these lines, and it seems that XMLStarlet does
not recognise the individual operations when they are passed as a
string containing many options. It returns "error in arguments: no
-t or --template options found".
Like in:
me@host:~> xml sel '-t -m "//sth" -v "text()" -n' data.xml
error in arguments: no -t or --template options found
I know this is more of an xargs problem than an XMLStarlet problem,
but it is just sooo appealing to use xargs with it.
Thanks,
Tylman
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