[lug] Joining commands?

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:39, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> John asked:
> 
> > I use Sun UNIX at work, and was trying to play a series of audio
> > files using the following command:
> >
> > find / -name '*.au' | audioplay
> 
> I suspect that piping everything at once into audioplay is the problem.  
> Instead, play them one at a time:
> 
> find / -name '*.au' -exec audioplay {} \;

There is also xargs, which has several nice features and is used like
this:
find / -name '*.au' | xargs audioplay
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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