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Subject: RE: xargs problem
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:23:00 -0500
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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

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