On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:45:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/21/08 15:58, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> $ seq -w 1 1 10 | xargs -i -n1 cp file.jpg file{}.jpg > > What's with the {}? An implied variable?
$ LANG=C man xargs | grep -C 2 '{}' -i[replace-str] This option is a synonym for -Ireplace-str if replace-str is specified, and for -I{} otherwise. This option is deprecated; use -I instead. -- example: somecommand | xargs -s 50000 echo | xargs -I '{}' -s 100000 rm '{}' Here, the first invocation of xargs has no input line length limit be- -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org