On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:03:59 -0400 Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Because then you don't need xargs, normal tooling seperates each line > into a seperate argv entry regardless of other spacing." > > If there's some existing way (portable or not) to build this kind of > argv in a shell script - using newline separation and nothing else - I > would really appreciate another hint. I wish you would have given an exact problem you are having difficulties with... I've been using ls | while read i; do echo "$i"; done or cat /tmp/tmp_file | while read i; do echo "$i"; done type of constructs for years and have never even needed xargs... -- Andre
