URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58149>
Summary: Whitespace parsing differs with and without -i
Project: findutils
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Thu 09 Apr 2020 05:55:59 PM UTC
Category: xargs
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Ryan Moore
Originator Email: [email protected]
Open/Closed: Open
Release: 4.7.0
Discussion Lock: Any
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
I would expect this to use -n1 to separate the whitespace-delimited parameters
"a" and "b" and "c" to print 3 separate lines:
root@rmoore:~# echo "a b c" | xargs -n1 -i{} echo foo {}
foo a b c
If I manually specify a space as the delimiter, it works as expected (and
gives an extra CR with the last line, since it's now "c\n"):
root@rmoore:~# echo "a b c" | xargs -d\ -n1 -i{} echo foo {}
foo a
foo b
foo c
If I run without -I{} as a substitution, it works as expected (and prints {}
explicitly):
root@rmoore:~# echo "a b c" | xargs -n1 echo foo {}
foo {} a
foo {} b
foo {} c
Version info, from Ubuntu 16.04 (also confirmed on 18.04):
root@rmoore:~# xargs --version
xargs (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
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