On 7/23/19 1:31 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>
> This is not about "-p", but simply that "{}" puts the entire input line
> ("0 0") as a single parameter (as if quoted).
>
> The correct comparison is:
>
> echo | xargs -p xdotool mousemove 0 0 click 1 mousemove restore
> vs
> echo | xargs -p xdotool mousemove "0 0" click 1 mousemove restoreStill, it would be nice if xargs could add appropriate quoting in its -p output to avoid the ambiguity. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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