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 -- Aaron http://m-net.arbornet.org/~arundelo/ _________________________________________________________________ http://homepage.msn.com/zune?icid=hmetagline -- 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/
