I would have thought this to be the easiest case, Instead of reading in a line to use as an argument, or something to merge with a command, how can I get xargs just to execute the line read in as the command?
I would have thought giving it -n1 -P12 and nothing else would have executed up to 12 procs at a time, 1 line being used as the 'proc'. But it doesn't seem to like that. Also, how can I tell it to use 1 line at a time but not consider double quotes to be special? It says to use -0 to not have double quotes considered special, but then it doesn't break at the linefeed. Um... Why can't it do it's job of reading in 1 cmdline args / line and exec whatever it has read in? FWIW, I don't want the extra overhead of spawning a shell with each command as there are ~ 80+K lines I want to execute... How do I get xargs to do this? Thanks!
