leave & xargs

So if i had quite understood,if i want to pass through the command
leave anothere command like shutdown -h 23:20,i need to do
$ leave 2320 |xargs shutdown -h 23:20 is that correct?

Re: leave & xargs

On 2007-11-26, franzi wrote:
>
>
> So if i had quite understood,if i want to pass through the command
> leave anothere command like shutdown -h 23:20,i need to do
> $ leave 2320 |xargs shutdown -h 23:20 is that correct?

What does the leave command do? Shutdown doesn't need more arguments
unless you want to give a reason for the shutdown.

Re: leave & xargs

On 26 Nov, 10:44, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On 2007-11-26, franzi wrote:
>
>
>
> > So if i had quite understood,if i want to pass through the command
> > leave anothere command like shutdown -h 23:20,i need to do
> > $ leave 2320 |xargs shutdown -h 23:20 is that correct?
>
> What does the leave command do? Shutdown doesn't need more arguments
> unless you want to give a reason for the shutdown.

it reminds you that you have to leave

Re: leave & xargs

"franzi" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> On 26 Nov, 10:44, Bill Marcum wrote:
>> On 2007-11-26, franzi wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > So if i had quite understood,if i want to pass through the command
>> > leave anothere command like shutdown -h 23:20,i need to do
>> > $ leave 2320 |xargs shutdown -h 23:20 is that correct?
>>
>> What does the leave command do? Shutdown doesn't need more arguments
>> unless you want to give a reason for the shutdown.
>
> it reminds you that you have to leave
xargs is meant to split command lines into chunks that don't exceed the max
length
here it doen't make sense, as calling shutdown more than once doesn't buy
much.
You could use:

shutdown -h 23:20 $(leave 2320)

and hope leave's output isn't too long to fit a single command line

Bye, Jojo

Re: leave & xargs

franzi writes:

> it reminds you that you have to leave

shutdown warns users to log off. And if you ignore this warning, it
shuts down anyway.

You don't need "leave."

You can run "leave" in your non-root window, and run "shutdown" in a
root window if you wish. Try it and see if you like it.

Re: leave & xargs

On 27 Nov, 13:16, Maxwell Lol wrote:
> franzi writes:
> > it reminds you that you have to leave
>
> shutdown warns users to log off. And if you ignore this warning, it
> shuts down anyway.
>
> You don't need "leave."
>
> You can run "leave" in your non-root window, and run "shutdown" in a
> root window if you wish. Try it and see if you like it.

thanks to all