Installing Utilities

[tweenerz]

I am somewhat new to Unix and I am working with a server hosted by someone else (so I don't have root access). I wanted to use the xargs utility for grep and was given a 'permission denied'.

Is it possible to install the xargs utility in my home directory (bin) and add it to my path so I can use it from there? I already downloaded it, but I don't know how to install it, if this is even an option.

I downloaded the findutils tar file which contains xargs. Inside the xargs directory are 4 files: Makefile.am, Makefile.in, xargs.1, and xargs.c. This is where I get lost.

Any help?

Thanks
Mike

 

[trunix]

I am surprised that you cannot use xargs as it should have full execute permissions by anybody.

It is more likly that the action you are trying to do is giving you the permissions problem.

e.g if you were trying to 'xargs rm' to remove a file, you may not have write permissions on the file.