X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: X-Sender: arundelo@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <1171899485.45d9c45d44ef0@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> From: "Aaron Brown" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: xargs problem Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:23:00 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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: $ for Thing in test1 test2 'test 3'; do echo $Thing; done test1 test2 test 3 -- Aaron http://m-net.arbornet.org/~arundelo/ _________________________________________________________________ http://homepage.msn.com/zune?icid=hmetagline -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/