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RE: xargs problem
- From: Markus Hoenicka <markus dot hoenicka at mhoenicka dot de>
- To: Aaron Brown <arundelo at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:34:56 +0100
- Subject: RE: xargs problem
- References: <BAY112-F18CDF858AF31B16E2F01D4C58A0@phx.gbl>
Aaron Brown <arundelo@hotmail.com> 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
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