X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:30:38 -0800 From: Christopher Layne To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xargs problem Message-ID: <20070219173037.GA17394@ns1.anodized.com> References: <1171899485.45d9c45d44ef0@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> <20070219163431.GX4158@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070219163431.GX4158@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Assp-Spam-Prob: 0.00000 X-Assp-Whitelisted: Yes X-Assp-Envelope-From: clayne@ns1.anodized.com X-Assp-Intended-For: cygwin@cygwin.com 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 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` -- 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/