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		PhilipRoman on June 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/x... >[..] arguments in the standard input are separated by unquoted <blank> characters [..] As for -i, it is documented to be the same as -I, which, among other things, makes it so that "unquoted blanks do not terminate input items; instead the separator is the newline character."

Izkata on June 26, 2024 [–]

Yeah, I misremembered. Here's an example, using "-n 1" so each split "thing" is passed to separate processes:

  $ printf "one two three\nfour five\n" | xargs -n 1 echo
  one
  two
  three
  four
  five

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