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[Dan Jacobson] xargs -i vs. -n


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: [Dan Jacobson] xargs -i vs. -n
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:29:03 +0200

--- Begin Message --- Subject: xargs -i vs. -n Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 03:51:34 +0800
Sorry I forgot the right bug address already and the xargs man page
has none.

There might be a conflict between xargs -n and -i.

The users wants to do
uuencode .forward .forward
uuencode .procmailrc .procmailrc
but can't get -n 1 to work while -i was there using this:
echo .forward .procmailrc|xargs -n 1 -i uuencode {} {}
so he gave up and used
for i in .forward .procmailrc; do uuencode $i $i; done
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