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Manual Reference Pages  - execinput (1)

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execinput - read commands and execute them one line at a time

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execinput [options...]

execinput reads a series of commands from stdin or a text file and executes each line as a command. execinput may be obtained as part of the drm_tools package from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drmtools/

-c <string>
	Any line which begins with a character contained in <string> is a comment and is not executed. (Default is to execute all input lines with 1 or more characters.)
-h -help --help -? --??
	Print the help message. (Default - do not print help message.)
-ef	Exit on first failure. ( Default - continue processing after a command failure).
-i	Emit version, copyright, license and contact information.( Default - do not emit information.)
-in <input_file>
	Read input from the specified file. (Default is to read from stdin.)
-loge	Log processing to stderr. The output format is: STATUS:XXXXXXXX: command where: STATUS is either success or failure; XXXXXXXX is the hexadecimal exit value returned by the subprocess; and command is the text line which was executed. (Default is no logging.)
-logf <log_file>
	Log processing to the specified file. (Default is not to log processing.)
-wl <widest_line>
	Widest input line in characters. (Default <widest_line> is 16000.)

% execinput -h
	List the the command line options.
% echo ’rm foobar’ | execinput
	Run the command rm foobar
% execinput -in cmdfile -ef -c ’#!’ -logf processed.log
	Read commands from cmdfile , treat lines beginning with # or ! as a comment, abort if any command fails, and log status messages to processed.log.
% find . | \\ extract -if ’/’ -ifonly -dl ’/’ -mt -cols ’mv [1,] [1,-2][cu:-1,]’ |\\
execinput
	Change the names of all files in or below this directory to upper case.

extract(1)

GNU General Public License 2

Copyright (C) 2002, 2006 David Mathog and Caltech.

David Mathog, Biology Division, Caltech <mathog@caltech.edu>