On 4/27/2016 2:26 PM, Mike Small wrote:
> I wondered about that but when I tried a little experiment it seemed
> like it's probably not necessary. When I "cat | xargs -I{} ls {}" and
> type some two word lines the files ls complains of being missing do seemIt's a case-by-case thing just like shell variables. Quoting won't hurt for file names but it could screw you over if you're substituting command switches. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518696 Yeah. parallel is the 800 pound gorilla, xargs is a kitten. Depends on whether you want a gorilla or a kitten. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
