[RndTbl] xargs with no command

Trevor Cordes trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Sat Jan 18 16:58:00 CST 2014


On 2014-01-18 Adam Thompson wrote:
> Other way 'round: xargs was the newline inserter, splitting a
> WS-separated list into multiple lines.

>From memory, it looked to me like xargs was a NL-eater, and only an EOL
NL- appender.

#cat > z
a
b
c
# xargs <z
a b c

*** note how the input is NL-sep, but the output is space-sep, just I
think as in Kevin's RTFM.

And the while loop was one line (one xargs call) per iteration.

Of course, this is just from memory!



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