Hello,
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> Eureka! I scanned the man page again and found a switch "-l" which forces
> each input argument to be processed separately. Therefore, it is
>
> xargs -l foo
>
> that is equivalent to
>
> xargs -i foo {}
>
> Now onwards, I will always use "-l" with XArgs.
Be careful. The man page also says:
The -l option is deprecated since the POSIX standard
specifies -L instead.
So it may be better to use
xargs -L 1 foo
Kapil.
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