Follow-up Comment #10, bug #38092 (project findutils): > The other obvious - and more readable - way to do this is to > split the argument file into however many chunks you need. > Then just run ...
Couldn't I skip xargs completely with this type of a for loop? for f in $(cat files); do process $f; done & Manually fiddling with argument files kind of defeats the purpose of using xargs in the first place... _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38092> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/