[Discuss] GNU xargs trick

[Rich Pieri]

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 seem

It'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.

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Rich P.