X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <1171902896.45d9d1b0cc68f@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:34:56 +0100 From: Markus Hoenicka To: Aaron Brown Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: xargs problem References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Aaron Brown was heard to say: > xargs only calls the command (echo in this case) once, with > all the given arguments. (It will call it more than once > only if calling it once would be a too-long command line.) > Ah, I see. After reading the man page again, the "-n" option with a value of 1 seems to do what I need. I'm sorry for the noise. I didn't have a Unix system handy to test whether this is indeed a Cygwin issue. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka@cats.de (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/