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From: Markus Hoenicka <markus DOT hoenicka AT mhoenicka DOT de>
To: Aaron Brown <arundelo AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: RE: xargs problem
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Aaron Brown <arundelo AT hotmail DOT com> was heard to say:

> 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.)
>

Ah, I see. After reading the man page again, the "-n" option with a value of 1
seems to do what I need.

I'm sorry for the noise. I didn't have a Unix system handy to test whether this
is indeed a Cygwin issue.

regards,
Markus

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