On 7/23/19 1:31 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > > This is not about "-p", but simply that "{}" puts the entire input line > ("0 0") as a single parameter (as if quoted). > > The correct comparison is: > > echo | xargs -p xdotool mousemove 0 0 click 1 mousemove restore > vs > echo | xargs -p xdotool mousemove "0 0" click 1 mousemove restore
Still, it would be nice if xargs could add appropriate quoting in its -p output to avoid the ambiguity. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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