Aaron Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de -- 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/
