>>>>> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> also sprach Joseph Dane (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 01:26:37PM Martin> -1000): >> why not just use xargs? >> >> find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l >> >> I think you can pass '-n 1' to xargs to cause it to execute the >> command a separate time for each argument. Martin> no: xargs(1) --max-args=max-args, -n max-args Use at most Martin> max-args arguments per command line. Fewer than max-args Martin> arguments will be used if the size (see the -s option) is Martin> exceeded, unless the -x option is given, in which case xargs Martin> will exit. right. meaning that if you specify '-n 1', then at most one argument will be used for each invocation. is that not what I said? -- joe
