Re: xargs problem

[Christopher Layne <clayne at anodized dot com>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:34:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen 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'

Which btw is obnoxiously slow on Cygwin for some weird-unknown
reason.

A better alternative to xargs on cygwin:

printf "%s\n" `command`

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