On Feb 19 11:23, Aaron Brown wrote: > Markus Hoenicka wrote: > > >maybe I'm being dense, but xargs does not seem to do what > >it should: > > 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.) > > If you want a command run once for each item in a list of > things, use a for loop:
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