xargs problem

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 19 11:23, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> 
> >maybe I'm being dense, but xargs does not seem to do what
> >it should:
> 
> xargs only calls the command (echo in this case) once, with
> all the given arguments.  (It will call it more than once
> only if calling it once would be a too-long command line.)
> 
> If you want a command run once for each item in a list of
> things, use a for loop:

...or `xargs -n 1'


Corinna

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