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Date:	Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:38:05 +0100
From:	Markus Hoenicka <markus DOT hoenicka AT mhoenicka DOT de>
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Subject:	xargs problem
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Hi all,

maybe I'm being dense, but xargs does not seem to do what it should:

$ echo test1 test2|xargs -t
/bin/echo test1 test2
test1 test2

I'd expect the output to read:

/bin/echo test1
test1
/bin/echo test2
test2

What am I doing wrong?

regards,
Markus

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